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Re: Installation Problem
Joseph Maxwell wrote:
> Perhaps there is decent kind 'soul' out there willing to take a look and
> see if a solution is easily recognizable
> log file =>
>
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
>
> configure:630: checking host system type
> configure:651: checking target system type
> configure:669: checking build system type
> configure:724: checking for a BSD compatible install
> configure:777: checking whether ln works
> configure:801: checking whether ln -s works
> configure:1866: checking for gcc
> configure:1979: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works
> configure:1995: gcc -o conftest conftest.c 1>&5
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory
This is a pretty clear error message, isn't it? GCC tried to execute a
program called 'as' (which is the GNU assembler from the binutils
package) and it was not available. GCC cannot produce output without an
assembler.
> But th problem persist, which seems to indicate that was not the problem
That is correct, it never was the problem.