Re: gcc gets stuck after reinstalling OS.

[Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay at adobe dot com>]

Hi Mallik,

When GCC is built on a SunOS box, it is very sensitive to the SunOS version 
-- INCLUDING the patch version.

If you patch your SunOS box, you should rebuild GCC.  Why?  Because some 
patch versions update the OS include files, and GCC caches (now stale) 
tweaked versions of those include files.  (There may be a way to update 
just the GCC cache of modified OS include files -- I don't know how to do 
that.)

To help you figure out where it's going off the rails, make sure your path 
is set to where GCC is installed.  Make sure GCC is installed where it 
expects to be installed (GCC contains some hard coded paths to find its 
components... if you move GCC, you break it).

Use the "-v" switch, for maximum verbosity to help diagnose where things go 
awry:
gcc -v blah.cpp

If you are using bash shell, make sure things are accessible in your path:
type -a gcc
type -a ld
type -a as

HTH,
--Eljay