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The following error kept coming up when trying to install Sqlite3 on OS X (actually, the same thing happened when trying to install Fink too). It was finally resolved by installing the latest XCode packages.
Running ‘sudo ./configure –prefix=/usr/local’
would return:

checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.2.2
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin9.2.2
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
Here’ all the important stuff from the log:
## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##
configure:2062: checking build system type
configure:2080: result: i386-apple-darwin9.2.2
configure:2102: checking host system type
configure:2117: result: i386-apple-darwin9.2.2
configure:2187: checking for gcc
configure:2203: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:2214: result: gcc
configure:2452: checking for C compiler version
configure:2459: gcc --version >&5
i686-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
configure:2462: $? = 0
configure:2469: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-apple-darwin8
Configured with: /private/var/tmp/gcc/gcc-5367.obj~1/src/configure --disable-checking -enable-werror --prefix=/usr --mandir=/share/man --enable-languages=c,objc,c++,obj-c++ --program-transform-name=/^[cg][^.-]*$/s/$/-4.0/ --with-gxx-include-dir=/include/c++/4.0.0 --with-slibdir=/usr/lib --build=powerpc-apple-darwin8 --with-arch=nocona --with-tune=generic --program-prefix= --host=i686-apple-darwin8 --target=i686-apple-darwin8
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)
configure:2472: $? = 0
configure:2479: gcc -V >&5
gcc: argument to `-V' is missing
configure:2482: $? = 1
configure:2505: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2532: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin8/4.0.1/../../../libSystem.dylib unknown flags (type) of section 6 (__TEXT,__literal16) in load command 0
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:2535: $? = 1
configure:2573: result:
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "sqlite"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "sqlite"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3.5.7"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "sqlite 3.5.7"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:2580: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##
#define PACKAGE_NAME "sqlite"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "sqlite"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "3.5.7"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "sqlite 3.5.7"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
configure: exit 77