Whatdoesthismean(aboutubuntuscim)checkingforaBSD-compatibleinstall.../usr/bin/install-ccheckingwhetherbuildenvironmentissane...yescheckingforgawk...nocheckingformawk...mawkcheckingwhethermakesets$(MAKE)...yescheckingwhetherNL

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What does this mean(about ubuntu scim)
checking for a BSD-compatible install.../usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane...yes
checking for gawk...no
checking for mawk...mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)...yes
checking whether NLS is requested...yes
checking for msgfmt...no
checking for gmsgfmt...:
checking for xgettext...no
checking for msgmerge...no
checking for style of include used by make...GNU
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.

Answer 1

This is probably the output of:
make config(or make)
I guess you are installing scim input method from source code(why just use "apt-get scim" to get the pre-compiled binary code)?
And the error message says:
"error:C compiler cannot create executables"
It means there is something wrong,which prevents the installation program from producing the result program(scim).
We can't figure out the exact reason without checking config.log,why not post it here?