intermittent gcc bug with /usr/ccs/bin/as

[Geoffrey Keating]

Edward Peschko <esp5@pge.com> writes:

> Basically, some times gcc ignores the fact that a gnu 'as' is in my path, 
> and opts to use /usr/ccs/bin/as instead.  In fact, /usr/ccs/bin is nowhere in my 
> path, ld_run_path or ld_library_path - nowhere in my environment, really. 
> The system will compile normally, and then run up against /usr/ccs/bin/as
> errors.
> 
> But the next time I compile, the error is nowhere to be seen.

That's odd.  The compiler should use /usr/ccs/bin/as all the time,
irregardless of PATH, on Solaris, unless you've overridden it at
configure time.  Is it possible that /usr/ccs/bin/as is, say, on a
soft-mounted NFS disk, and so the compiler can't find it sometimes?