gnats/82: configure-script failing due to strange passing of -2 to ld?

[woc]

>Number:         82
>Category:       gnats
>Synopsis:       configure-script failing due to strange passing of -2 to ld?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 19 06:54:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Carl-Johan Sveningsson
>Release:        gnats-3.113
>Organization:
>Environment:
SunOS 5.7 (solaris 2.7?) Generic_106541-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
>Description:
(also submitted to address@hidden)

I try to run the configure-script provided with gnats-3.113 on the boss's 
Solaris-box, but it keeps failing at some compiler-test, with some weird 
message that ld is being passed "-2".

I've tried to change the CFLAGS, but I haven't even managed to locate _where_ 
in the script the error is.

Isn't configure-scripts supposed to be runnable even on this machine?

I'd be most grateful for a quick answer, since it's kind of important to get 
the gnats-system up and running.

Greetings
Carl-Johan Sveningsson

The error message follows:
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woc/gnats-3.113>./configure
Configuring for a sparc-sun-solaris2.7 host.
Created "Makefile" in /export/home2/woc/src/gnats-3.113 using 
"config/mh-solaris"
cc: Warning: option -2 passed to ld
/usr/ccs/bin/ld: illegal option -- 2
usage: ld [-abd:e:f:h:il:mo:rstu:z:B:D:F:GI:L:M:N:Q:R:S:VY:] file(s)

...[snap]...

*** The command 'cc -o conftest -O2 conftest.c' failed.
*** You must set the environment variable CC to a working compiler.

(I have set $CC to cc)
>How-To-Repeat:
./configure on gnats-3.113?
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
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