GCC Problems

[kevinhill]

So, I am attempting to install my first program from source *cue ominous music*...

specifically, i'm trying to install libnjb so I can run KZenExplorer in order to use my Zen Micro without resorting to Win XP. I tried installing the libnjb1 and libnjb5 packages via adept and still got the error:

kzenexplorer: error while loading shared libraries: libnjb.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So I figure I should install libnjb from source... I've gotten gcc and run the ./configure in the install dir when I get the error:

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

Did some searches and it seems like a very common problem for newbies like me, but of course even instance of this problem has a different solution. I think the pertinent lines of 'config.log' are...

gcc version 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)
configure:2293: $? = 0
configure:2295: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:2298: $? = 1
configure:2321: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2324: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:2327: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| 
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "libnjb"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "libnjb"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.2.5"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "libnjb 2.2.5"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "libnjb-users@lists.sourceforge.net"
| #define PACKAGE "libnjb"
| #define VERSION "2.2.5"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:2366: error: C compiler cannot create executables

so, any ideas on what to do next? Thanks.