automake issues with gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)

[rkrishnasanka]

So it seems like the automake configuration is not working correctly with my current gcc version. When I try to run the automake it dies with this this long in the configure step:

checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/home/krishna/CIDAR/adaptagrams/cola':
configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

So from this I deduced that it failed to verify if GCC would work.

Next, I check the log to see why thats a problem

Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-7/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-7 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-bootstrap --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 
configure:3093: $? = 0
configure:3082: g++ -V >&5
g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
g++: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3093: $? = 1
configure:3082: g++ -qversion >&5
g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'; did you mean '--version'?
g++: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.

So from what I gather:

g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
g++: fatal error: no input files`

or

g++: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'; did you mean '--version'?
g++: fatal error: no input files

seems to be the problem.

This is the first time I'm using automake, so I'm kind of a noob with this. It'll be really helpful if you can help me configure this. I considered switching the compiler options but, I have a ton of other libraries for which I had to build Makefiles manually for this project and I don't want to spend time re-configuring everything again.

Thanks