icc reports "Requires 'install path' setting gathered from 'gcc'"

[Hao_Z_]

# what happened

sample code("main.c"):
```
int main(){}
```

when run `icc main.c`, it reports:
```
icc: error #10417: Problem setting up the Intel(R) Compiler compilation environment. Requires 'install path' setting gathered from 'gcc'
```

# environments

arch linux
```
Linux zhanghao 4.14.15-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 23 21:49:25 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux
```

gcc 7.3
```
gcc (GCC) 7.3.0
Copyright (C) 2017 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.
```

icc from `parallel_studio_xe_2018_update1_cluster_edition`

# some details

`strace -f icc ./main.c` result is in attach

[Viet_H_Intel]

Hi, 

It seems to me that the GCC version you have is unsupported in ICC 18.0.

Regards,

Viet 

[jperaltac]

What is the GCC version supported by ICC 18.0? I have the same issue with GCC 6.3

Thanks in advance for your help.

JP

[Hao_Z_]

I find out where is wrong now ...

when icc compile source, icc will call `gcc --print-search-dirs -m64`

icc expect it output `install: /usr/lib/`

but in my PC, I set environment variable `LC_MESSAGES=zh_CN.UTF-8`

so, its output is `安装：/usr/lib/...` indeed.

then icc cannot understand it

to solve it, run something like `export LC_MESSAGES=POSIX` before run icc

[Viet_H_Intel]

You can find GCC supported versions at https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-c-compiler-180-release-notes

[Hao_Z_]

this is not because of incompatible gcc version, but wrong locale environtment setting.

[Hao_Z_]

As you see, even with correct gcc version, if i set locale to other language, icc won't work still ``` ~  env -i bash -rcfile /dev/null bash-4.2$ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16) Copyright (C) 2015 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. bash-4.2$ /opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2018.1.163/linux/bin/intel64/icc --version icc (ICC) 18.0.1 20171018 Copyright (C) 1985-2017 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. bash-4.2$ cat ./main.c #include int main(){ printf("Hello World\n"); return 0; } bash-4.2$ LC_MESSAGES=zh_CN.UTF-8 /opt/intel/compilers_and_libraries_2018.1.163/linux/bin/intel64/icc ./main.c icc: error #10417: Problem setting up the Intel(R) Compiler compilation environment. Requires 'install path' setting gathered from 'gcc' bash-4.2$ locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="POSIX" LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= bash-4.2$ exit ~  ```