configure: exit 77

[vialjoris]

sudo ./configure --enable-mpers=no checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in /data/scripts/strace':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See config.log' for more details

cat config.log
....
configure: exit 77

solution :
sudo apt-get install build-essential