Difficulties with creating a cross compiler

[NightStrike]

On 9/28/07, Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net> wrote:
> Scott Moore wrote:
>
> > Why does gcc make create this batch file "as" on cross compilers?
>
> You did install a cross-binutils and put its $prefix/bin ahead of the
> native tools in the PATH, right?  Because it looks like the gcc
> configure wasn't able to find arm-elf-as and is doing the wrong thing.

Shouldn't gcc dump out an error if as is not found for the target
system instead of creating the aforementioned shell script?