Re: GNUgcc does not work

[Kenny McCormack]

In article <address@hidden>,
Paul Jarc <address@hidden> wrote:
>Akihiko Handa <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I am writing this message to asking for your help
>> regarding GNUgcc.
>
>gcc has its own mailing lists.  See
><URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html>.
>
>> The installation looked successfull, however, when I executed gcc
>> program, it failed with the following messages:
>>
>> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as`: No such file or directory
>
>Do you have the "as" program installed?  If not, install it.  If so,
>make a symlink to it in
>/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/2.95.2; that's the first
>place gcc looks for it.  Likewise for ld.
>
>
>paul

This is usually caused by:
        1) Installing GCC in a non-standard location (e.g., in your home
           directory when you don't have root on the system)
and     2) Failing to set the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX variable accordingly.