Re: Using GNU as with EGCS 1.1.1 on HP/UX 10.20? (small patch)

["Theodore C. Belding" <streak at umich dot edu>]

I got around this problem myself by setting the COMPILER_PATH shell
environment variable to point to the path where binutils was installed:

`COMPILER_PATH'
     The value of `COMPILER_PATH' is a colon-separated list of
     directories, much like `PATH'.  GNU CC tries the directories thus
     specified when searching for subprograms, if it can't find the
     subprograms using `GCC_EXEC_PREFIX'.

Maybe this should be in the FAQ?
-Ted

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On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Jeffrey A Law]
> > Use the same prefix for egcs & binutils/gas.  That is the preferred
> > way to make gcc find gas automatically.
> 
> I know that is the preferred way to find gas.  I've tried it and it
> works, but then I get conflicts with gcc, and things starts to break.
> I need to compile egcs and gcc with different prefix.  As I install
> egcs, and another person installs gcc and gas, I want to change the
> prefix of egcs and still find gas.
> 
> How do I do that.  Why does not --with-as=/full/path/to/gas work?
> 
> > That is a separate issue.  You have to configure gcc to expect to
> > use gas.  Else it default to expecting the HP assembler, which can
> > not handle -g output.
> 
> Do I fix this with --with-gnu-as?  Is there a better way?
> 
> BTW: I'm still not on this list.  Please send copy to me when answering.
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