[LUNI] A purely hypothetical question

[Mike Scott]

Okay, I am running Ubuntu 7.04 and have the Xine player installed and I
want to watch a DVD movie (that I legally own) on it.

Now let's say I find this server in Eastern Europe that has the source
code for a DMD plugin that allows this (which I would never download
because, as we all know, it is illegal to watch content that you have
legally purchased in this free country of ours).  Then, still
hypothetically, I unzip the archive and run the command ./configure from
the source directory. and the final lines of the output are:

checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
cannot create executables

I believe the comments in the configure file describing this are:

# Try to create an executable without -o first, disregard a.out.
# It will help us diagnose broken compilers, and finding out an
intuition
# of exeext.

I'm thinking maybe the development stuff isn't installed as I get the
following trying to compile a simple "Hello World" test:
mscott at nVidia-desktop:~$ gcc hello.c
hello.c:1:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory

mscott at nVidia-desktop:~$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>

printf("Hello World!\n");

Could anyone tell me what this hypothetical error message was telling me
(if, in fact I actually did this)?

- Mike Scott