[Pythonmac-SIG] configure failing with Python 2.4

[Kevin Dangoor]

I'm thinking that I must be doing something simple wrong... hopefully 
that's the case.

I downloaded the Python 2.4 source and tried to run a basic ./configure 
to see what I get. What I got was this error:

checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: 
C++ compiler cannot create executables

which appears to be caused by

configure:1772: c++    conftest.cc  >&5
ld: can't locate file for: -lcrt1.o

While I'm sure I can track that down, I figured that I must be doing 
something silly. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?

Thanks,
Kevin