3.1, Sun, sparc, solaris2.5.1 -- possible solution

[Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng]

Earlier today Wed, 19 Jun 2002, I wrote:

        [...]
> Both of these could be due to picking up the wrong as.
>
> To save fiddling with $PATH (which may upset something else) does the
> configuration procedure check for gas before checking for as -- i.e if I
> symlink /usr/locla/bin/gas to /usr/local/bin/as will that fix things?

OK, not generally recommended to followup your own posts, but I have
tested this now, to some extent.
This seems to have fixed things on our (faster) Solaris2.7 system.
I'm going to try this on the Solaris2.5.1 system.  Maybe I'll have the
results on Friday for you.

        Hugh