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- From: sens@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Sunando Sen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Small problem with gccdisk
- Summary: /usr/bin/gcc needs to be updated
- Keywords: gcc-2.3.3, gccdisk
- Message-ID: <sens.26.726297113@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 05:11:53 GMT
- Sender: notes@cmcl2.nyu.edu (Notes Person)
- Organization: New York University
- Lines: 29
- Nntp-Posting-Host: rm303.econ.nyu.edu
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- I had a small problem while installing gcc-2.3.3 from H. J. Liu's
- gccdisk. Whenever I tried to invoke gcc, I was getting the following
- message :
-
- gcc: installation problem, cannot exec cpp: No such file or directory
-
- even though /lib/cpp is a soft link to /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.3.3/cpp.
- On the other hand, gcc -V 2.3.3 worked. I think the /usr/bin/gcc
- binary has been left over from the old distribution. If you look at
- the listing of /usr/bin from Disk1 of gccdisk, you will see that it is
- identical to the one from gcc-2.2.2d distribution:
-
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 37888 Oct 17 21:52 gcc
-
- In any case, I just opened gcc with emacs and replaced the string
- "2.2.2" with the string "2.3.3" (it occurs in only one place). It
- seems to work now.
-
- On a related note, the disk3 of the previous version of basedisk contained
- all the binaries in /bin, the new version contains all the binaries in /usr/
- bin. So, after upgrading I ended up with two copies of the binutils
- package. In fact the binaries haven't changed at all, they are identical to
- the older ones (does it matter?). Thanks to H. J. Liu, upgrading Linux so
- far has been extremely painless.
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Sunando Sen
- sens@fasecon.econ.nyu.edu
-