Comment 56 for bug 88570

To John:

Did as you said, installed build-essentials, problem persists

raf@equinox2:~$ wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2
--22:49:11-- ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2
           => `alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2'
Resolving ftp.alsa-project.org... 160.217.9.25
Connecting to ftp.alsa-project.org|160.217.9.25|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/driver ... done.
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2 ... done.
Length: 2,600,096 (2.5M) (unauthoritative)

100%[====================================>] 2,600,096 52.02K/s ETA 00:00

22:50:05 (49.52 KB/s) - `alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2' saved [2600096]

raf@equinox2:~$ tar -xjf alsa-driver-1.0.14.tar.bz2
raf@equinox2:~$ cd alsa-driver-1.0.14
raf@equinox2:~/alsa-driver-1.0.14$ ./configure
checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
raf@equinox2:~/alsa-driver-1.0.14$