How do I tell xgcc which as to use?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 15, 1999, Nathan Sidwell <nathan@acm.org> wrote:

> "Bates, Rod" wrote:
>> 
>> While building egcs-1.1.2, I can't get xgcc to honor my
>> request on where to find as.

> try 
> ./configure --with-as=`which as` --with-ld=`which ld`
> modified apropriately for your system

This doesn't work in 1.1.*.

For 1.1, the trick is to create links to the assembler and linker in
the `egcs/gcc' build directory, as well as in all stage
sub-directories, and/or in the intended installation prefix.  Check
http://egcs.cygnus.com/faq.html#gas for (not so many :-( details.

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