default gcc doesn't work / crt1.o missing

[Traumflug]

Binary package hint: gcc-4.1

System:

Ubuntu 7.10 i386, installed on an empty partition using the downloadable CD.

Steps to reproduce:

1 - fetch and unpack a configure based source package

2 - ./configure

Result: gcc is found but doesn't work. config.log says:
[...]
configure:1951: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:1954: gcc conftest.c >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:1957: $? = 1
[...]

Indeed, the file isn't available:
heb@rutan:~$ find / -name crt1.o 2>/dev/null
heb@rutan:~$

A few additional infos:

heb@rutan:~$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)
Copyright (C) 2006 [...]

heb@rutan:~$ uname -a
Linux rutan 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Looking at the gcc-4.1 package in Synaptic, crt1.o doesn't appear in the file list either.

[Jeff Bailey (jbailey)]

You need to install "build-essential" in order for general compilation to work. This isn't included on the CD or default install to save space.