Regarding gcc testsuite

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 27 October 2014 12:36, Manpreet Singh wrote:
> Hi,
> Failures from gcc testsuite after building gcc-4.4.5 and running make check
> # of unexpected failures        5000
> build_dir/.../gcc-4.4/gcc_test/gcc_test/gcc/xgcc  version 4.4.5 (GCC)
>
> gcc log file shows this failure
> Excess errors: build_dir/.../gcc-4.4/gcc_test/gcc/as: 76: exec: :
> Permission denied

Obvious question ... what is that file and what are its permissions?

If you don't have a valid assembler in your PATH the testsuite isn't
going to work very well.