configure complaint from a SGI O3k machine

[Bil Kleb]

Just a note to say that when I configure on a 1024-processor SGI 3k Origin
I get a strange error during the test for a GNU ld:

 % ./configure --prefix=/u/kleb/local
 creating cache ./config.cache
 checking host system type... mips-sgi-irix6.5_nwokah_1218022002_SN1XXL
 checking target system type... mips-sgi-irix6.5_nwokah_1218022002_SN1XXL
 checking build system type... mips-sgi-irix6.5_nwokah_1218022002_SN1XXL
 checking for gcc... no
 checking for cc... cc
 checking whether the C compiler (cc  ) works... yes
 checking whether the C compiler (cc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
 checking whether we are using GNU C... no
 checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
 checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
 checking whether the linker is GNU ld... cc ERROR:  -- not allowed in non XPG4 
environment
 cc ERROR parsing --print-prog-name=ld:  unknown flag
 cc ERROR:  no source or object file given
 no
 checking whether cc -E accepts -o... yes
 [..]

I'll forward more detailed information to anyone who wants to take a more
detailed look...

[This is during a configure for installing Ruby, http://www.ruby-lang.org/.]

Regards,
--
Bil Kleb
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, Virginia, USA