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Recently i was trying to install cpuminer and i ran this code to configure it

./configure CFLAGS="-03"

when this error came up

checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/home/default/cpuminer-master':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

Now i did some googling and there are people with similar problems but with rdifferent logs. Mine consists of errors including invalid commandline options which is odd. Here is the log:

    This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by cpuminer configure 2.3.2, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69.  Invocation command line was

  $ ./configure CFLAGS=-03

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

hostname = defaultLAPTOP
uname -m = x86_64
uname -r = 3.19.0-26-generic
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #28~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 12 14:09:17 UTC 2015

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

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

PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/games
PATH: /usr/local/games


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

configure:2330: checking build system type
configure:2344: result: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure:2364: checking host system type
configure:2377: result: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure:2397: checking target system type
configure:2410: result: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure:2454: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2522: result: /usr/bin/install -c
configure:2533: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:2588: result: yes
configure:2739: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p
configure:2778: result: /bin/mkdir -p
configure:2785: checking for gawk
configure:2815: result: no
configure:2785: checking for mawk
configure:2801: found /usr/bin/mawk
configure:2812: result: mawk
configure:2823: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:2845: result: yes
configure:2874: checking whether make supports nested variables
configure:2891: result: yes
configure:3020: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles
configure:3029: result: no
configure:3055: checking for style of include used by make
configure:3083: result: GNU
configure:3154: checking for gcc
configure:3170: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:3181: result: gcc
configure:3410: checking for C compiler version
configure:3419: gcc --version >&5
gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04) 4.8.4
Copyright (C) 2013 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:3430: $? = 0
configure:3419: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.8/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.8 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.8 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-libmudflap --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64/jre --enable-java-home --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04) 
configure:3430: $? = 0
configure:3419: gcc -V >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3430: $? = 4
configure:3419: gcc -qversion >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3430: $? = 4
configure:3450: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3472: gcc -03   conftest.c  >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-03'
configure:3476: $? = 1
configure:3514: result: no
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "cpuminer"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "cpuminer"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.3.2"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "cpuminer 2.3.2"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PACKAGE "cpuminer"
| #define VERSION "2.3.2"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
|
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put on hold as off-topic by jasonwryan, Archemar, Anthon, jimmij, G-Man 3 hours ago

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-O3, not -03 (capital letter O, not digit zero) –  Mat 10 hours ago
    
Im stupid. Thanks so much man. –  Hayden 10 hours ago

1 Answer 1

The correct option is -O3 (minus-oh-three), not -03 (minus-zero-three).

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