Karl,

Karl Larsen wrote:
>   I got the special files so gcc and make work but it appears I am
> missing something.
>
> I tried to configure screem and got this error:
>
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> 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.
>
> Does anyone know what I am missing?

I would install the package build-essential and try again.
build-essential is a meta package that depends on all the packages you
need to compile stuff.

Regards,
Tony.
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