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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 13:55:58 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>
Subject: Re: another "C compiler cannot create executables"
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Fernando,

"As" is the assembler. It's part of the "binutils" package. If you don't 
have "as," it's probably because you didn't select the "binutils" package 
for installation.

It has been a common design element in Unix compilers for decades for the 
code generator to produce assembly, not machine code. Then a separate pass 
by the assembler produces object code.


When in doubt about missing tools, go here: <http://cygwin.com/packages/> 
to check which package contains a particular binary. Unfortunately, with a 
name as short as "as," you get many spurious hits. In this case, the 
summary text for each package in the listing might be a better source of 
information:

- binutils
   The GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 12:25 2002-08-17, Fernando Martins wrote:

>I've the same symptom as Piyush Kacha but the cause seems different:
>
>(from config.log)
>configure:2422: checking for C compiler default output
>configure:2425: gcc -D_WIN32   conftest.c  >&5
>gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory
>configure:2428: $? = 1
>configure: failed program was:
>
>What's 'as'? Doesn't seem to be a package. What can I do?
>
>Maybe related, the previous version of gcc (2.95.3-5) was GPFing (for
>unknown reason to me) and that's why I upgraded.
>
>Any help appreciated,
>
>TIA,
>
>Fernando Martins


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