configure on (K)ununtu 6.10 returns error for Xemacs-21.5.28

[Uwe Brauer]

Hello 


Motivated by the promised good UTF-8 support of the 21.5 series I
tried to build it myself.
The last time I did that has been before switching to
Debian/Ubuntu some 4 years ago.

I just run ./confiure and obtain the following PANIC message:

*** PANIC *** The C compiler can no longer build working executables.
*** PANIC *** Please examine the tail of config.log for runtime error
s.
*** PANIC *** The most likely reason for this problem is that configu
re
*** PANIC *** links with shared libraries, but those libraries cannot
    be 
*** PANIC *** found at run time.
*** PANIC ***
*** PANIC *** On a Linux system, edit /etc/ld.so.conf and re-run ldco
    nfig. 
*** PANIC *** On other systems, try telling configure where to find t
    he 
*** PANIC *** shared libraries using the --with-site-runtime-librarie
    s option 
*** PANIC ***
*** PANIC *** Another way to shoot yourself in the foot is to specify
*** PANIC *** --with-FEATURE when FEATURE is not actually installed
*** PANIC *** on your system.  Don't do that.

Well I hesitate to edit /etc/ld.so.conf and I can't believe that this
should be necessary on a standard Kubuntu  system. 

A brief look in the config.log makes my suspect that 

configure: program exited with status 4
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "XEmacs"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "xemacs"

 confdefs.h 

Might be the culprit.


I can attach the config.log if necessary (0.3 M).

regards

Uwe Brauer