On Sun, 5 Jul 1998 12:13:51 +0200 (MEST), Peter Gerwinski wrote:

According to Robert P. Ewing:

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I get: gpc: installation problem, cannot exec 'as': No such file or directory.

Looking in the /usr/local/bin directory shows I have gpc, but nothing else (no as, no ld...).

Your system's `as', `ld' etc must be installed somewhere (e.g. in /usr/bin); please try to find out their place. It is also possible to use the GNU versions of those programs; in that case you have to `./configure' GPC with `--with-gnu-as' and/or `--with-gnu-ld' and to provide the corresponding packages.

I haven't used an IRIX machine in years, and even then it was quite brief. However it is important to note that SGI led the pack as far as commercial vendors un-bundling parts of their UNIX implementations. Most notably, such rarely used items as the development tools. :) With 5.3 they don't even ship the C headers and runtime libraries, so I wouldn't be surprised if "as" wasn't in the base OS either -- or at least not in the default install. Most versions of gcc for IRIX on the net use gnu-as from what I can tell. Hopefully someone more familiar with IRIX knows better. 'ld' should definately be someplace on his system.

Try out this site for IRIX freeware (including gcc information):

http://reality.sgi.com/ariel/freeware

This site has the SGI/IRIX faqs:

http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/

Again however, GCC for IRIX 5.3 is DOA unless you bought the development disc -- which is going to make it difficult to recompile GPC to use gnu-as. I would suggest the original poster ask his system administrator what exactly he can expect to find on his system.

-Kevin -- Kevin A. Foss --- kfoss@mint.net