Wrong assembler used with gcc 4.3.0 on Solaris 9

[John Morrison]

Hi Raphael.

Does the environment variable GCC_EXEC_PREFIX point to where the binutils are?

I had a similar problem and while searching for answers I some how came across this document:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Environment-Variables.html

I changed the value to the env var and all seems to be working well. 

This is only a suggestion from very brief experience.

Good Luck.
John Morrison
Printronix, Inc.



-----Original Message-----
From: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org] On Behalf Of Langella Raphael
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:23 AM
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Wrong assembler used with gcc 4.3.0 on Solaris 9

Hi,

I've built gcc 4.3.0 (with ada) and binutils 2.18 on Solaris 9. Hello world program works fine in C, but fails in C++ and ada :

# g++ hello.cxx
/usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp//ccDeMxqh.s", line 139: error: unknown opcode ".weakref"
/usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp//ccDeMxqh.s", line 139: error: statement syntax
/usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp//ccDeMxqh.s", line 140: error: unknown opcode ".weakref"
[and a lot more of these errors]

The same happens with gnatmake and an ada helloworld.

I don't understand why the default solaris assembler is used instead of the binutils one (which can be found at the very beginning of my PATH).

This works :
g++ -S hello.cxx
as -xarch=v9 hello.s

How to specify which assembler to use ? Why doesn't it use the first one found in PATH ?

Regards,
Raphaël Langella