Error during configure step

[Rick Burge]

After having no luck using the aCC compiler on Itanium I installed the gcc. 
And I still have the same error.  Can anybody help?

Thanks,
Rick

% ./configure --with-optim="+z"  2>&1 | tee config.out
checking for default print user... lp
checking for default print group... sys
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.