gpg 1.4.4 build error on Ubuntu

[Ludwig Hügelschäfer]

Hi together,

I'm trying to compile gpg 1.4.4 on ubuntu-Linux 5.1

running ./configure produces:

> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details.

and checking config.log yields:

> configure:2881: gcc -v </dev/null >&5
> Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/3.4.5/specs
> Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,pascal,objc,ada --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.4 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --program-suffix=-3.4 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=mt --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug i486-linux-gnu
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.4.5 20050809 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 3.4.4-6ubuntu8.1)
> configure:2884: $? = 0
> configure:2886: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
> gcc: `-V' option must have argument
> configure:2889: $? = 1
> configure:2912: checking for C compiler default output file name
> configure:2915: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
> /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure:2918: $? = 1

What's running wrong there? Wrong gcc-Version installed?

TIA

Ludwig