configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables ?

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configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

I am running the prior release of the KNOPPIX CD and did the recommended apt-get -f command to resolve a few package issues as receommended by the apt-get command... now I am getting the above message from every source pkg complie. using ./configure. Previous source tarballs (tgz and tar.gz) complied fine...

1) Have I done something I can't undo?

2) If no, how do I undo whatever apt-get did ?

I didnt see an answer to this question in the FAQ.

Thanks

===== Trail of the error =========
root@Knoppix:/media/sdd1/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.5# apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
build-essential: Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
libc-dev
Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.3.1) but it is not going to be installed
locales: Depends: glibc-2.7-1
ymessenger: Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2 (>= 0.13.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libssl0.9.6 but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
root@Knoppix:/media/sdd1/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.5# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6 libgdk-pixbuf2
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc libc6-i686
The following packages will be REMOVED:
ymessenger
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgdk-pixbuf2
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc6
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1063 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/4606kB of archives.
After unpacking 938kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 108834 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing ymessenger ...
(Reading database ... 108824 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 (using .../archives/libc6_2.7-13_i386.deb) ...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking init scripts...
Matching libraries: /UNIONFS/lib/libc.so.6

Another copy of the C library was found via /etc/ld.so.conf.
It is not safe to upgrade the C library in this situation;
please remove the directory from /etc/ld.so.conf and try again.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-13_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-13_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@Knoppix:/media/sdd1/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.5# apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
build-essential: Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
libc-dev
Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.3.1) but it is not going to be installed
locales: Depends: glibc-2.7-1
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
root@Knoppix:/media/sdd1/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.5# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

=========================ATTEMPTS TO REPAIR =============
root@Knoppix:/media/sdd1/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.5# apt-get install --fix-broken
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc libc6-i686
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc6
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1063 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/4437kB of archives.
After unpacking 594kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 108824 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 (using .../archives/libc6_2.7-13_i386.deb) ...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking init scripts...
Matching libraries: /UNIONFS/lib/libc.so.6

Another copy of the C library was found via /etc/ld.so.conf.
It is not safe to upgrade the C library in this situation;
please remove the directory from /etc/ld.so.conf and try again.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-13_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-13_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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I've added the details of the failed compile which gives the specific details from the ./configure step that failed and the diag output here ...

knoppix@Knoppix:/media/sdd1/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.5$ cat config.log
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by configure, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.62. Invocation command line was

$ ./configure

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = Knoppix
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 2.6.19
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #7 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 17 22:01:07 CET 2006

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown

/bin/arch = i686
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown

PATH: /home/knoppix/.dist/bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /usr/X11R6/bin
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/games
PATH: /usr/NX/bin
PATH: .


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:2037: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2105: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:2116: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:2159: result: yes
configure:2184: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p
configure:2223: result: /bin/mkdir -p
configure:2236: checking for mawk
configure:2252: found /usr/bin/mawk
configure:2263: result: mawk
configure:2274: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:2296: result: yes
configure:3148: checking for gcc
configure:3164: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:3175: result: gcc
configure:3413: checking for C compiler version
configure:3421: gcc --version >&5
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:3425: $? = 0
configure:3432: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --with-tune=i686 --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20061028 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-19)
configure:3436: $? = 0
configure:3443: gcc -V >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:3447: $? = 1
configure:3470: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:3492: gcc conftest.c >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:3496: $? = 1
configure:3534: result:
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE "tpop3d"
| #define VERSION "1.5.5"
| #define TPOP3D_VERSION "1.5.5"
| #define AUTH_PAM 1
| #define MBOX_BSD 1
| #define WITH_CCLIENT_LOCKING 1
| #define WITH_DOTFILE_LOCKING 1
| #define WITH_FCNTL_LOCKING 1
| #define IGNORE_CCLIENT_METADATA 1
| #define MASS_HOSTING 1
| #define SHA1_PASSWORDS 1
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:3541: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

## ---------------- ##
## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##

ac_cv_env_CC_set=
ac_cv_env_CC_value=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CPP_set=
ac_cv_env_CPP_value=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_LIBS_set=
ac_cv_env_LIBS_value=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_value=
ac_cv_path_install='/usr/bin/install -c'
ac_cv_path_mkdir=/bin/mkdir
ac_cv_prog_AWK=mawk
ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_CC=gcc
ac_cv_prog_make_make_set=yes

## ----------------- ##
## Output variables. ##
## ----------------- ##

ACLOCAL='${SHELL} /media/sdd1/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.5/config/missing --run aclocal-1.10'
AMDEPBACKSLASH=''
AMDEP_FALSE=''
AMDEP_TRUE=''
AMTAR='${SHELL} /media/sdd1/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.5/config/missing --run tar'
AUTOCONF='${SHELL} /media/sdd1/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.5/config/missing --run autoconf'
AUTOHEADER='${SHELL} /media/sdd1/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.5/config/missing --run autoheader'
AUTOMAKE='${SHELL} /media/sdd1/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.5/config/missing --run automake-1.10'
AWK='mawk'
CC='gcc'
CCDEPMODE=''
CFLAGS=''
CPP=''
CPPFLAGS=''
CYGPATH_W='echo'
DEFS=''
DEPDIR=''
ECHO_C=''
ECHO_N='-n'
ECHO_T=''
EGREP=''
EXEEXT=''
GREP=''
INSTALL_DATA='${INSTALL} -m 644'
INSTALL_PROGRAM='${INSTALL}'
INSTALL_SCRIPT='${INSTALL}'
INSTALL_STRIP_PROGRAM='$(install_sh) -c -s'
LDFLAGS=''
LIBOBJS=''
LIBS=''
LTLIBOBJS=''
MAKEINFO='${SHELL} /media/sdd1/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.5/config/missing --run makeinfo'
MKDIR_P='/bin/mkdir -p'
OBJEXT=''
PACKAGE='tpop3d'
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT=''
PACKAGE_NAME=''
PACKAGE_STRING=''
PACKAGE_TARNAME=''
PACKAGE_VERSION=''
PATH_SEPARATOR=':'
PERL=''
SET_MAKE=''
SHELL='/bin/sh'
STRIP=''
VERSION='1.5.5'
ac_aux_dir='config'
ac_ct_CC='gcc'
am__fastdepCC_FALSE=''
am__fastdepCC_TRUE=''
am__include=''
am__isrc=''
am__leading_dot='.'
am__quote=''
am__tar='${AMTAR} chof - "$$tardir"'
am__untar='${AMTAR} xf -'
bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin'
build_alias=''
datadir='${datarootdir}'
datarootdir='${prefix}/share'
docdir='${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}'
dvidir='${docdir}'
exec_prefix='NONE'
host_alias=''
htmldir='${docdir}'
includedir='${prefix}/include'
infodir='${datarootdir}/info'
install_sh='$(SHELL) /media/sdd1/tpop3d/tpop3d-1.5.5/config/install-sh'
libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib'
libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec'
localedir='${datarootdir}/locale'
localstatedir='${prefix}/var'
mandir='${datarootdir}/man'
mkdir_p='/bin/mkdir -p'
oldincludedir='/usr/include'
pdfdir='${docdir}'
prefix='NONE'
program_transform_name='s,x,x,'
psdir='${docdir}'
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
target_alias=''

## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##

#define PACKAGE_NAME ""
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
#define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
#define PACKAGE_STRING ""
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
#define PACKAGE "tpop3d"
#define VERSION "1.5.5"
#define TPOP3D_VERSION "1.5.5"
#define AUTH_PAM 1
#define MBOX_BSD 1
#define WITH_CCLIENT_LOCKING 1
#define WITH_DOTFILE_LOCKING 1
#define WITH_FCNTL_LOCKING 1
#define IGNORE_CCLIENT_METADATA 1
#define MASS_HOSTING 1
#define SHA1_PASSWORDS 1

configure: exit 77I