by I installed from the Slackware 'a' disks, and have a working system.
Now I wish to rebuild the kernel to support my hardware, so the first
step is to get the compiler (2.5.8) running. I tried two ways:
1) from the slackware distribution. This was terrible, because the
series of disks which have gcc also have a lot of other stuff I didn't
want, and there was no easy way to segregate everything before
downloading. To make matters worse, The installation did not even
work. Compilation fails with the message
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec as: No such file or directory
2) I downloaded the prepackaged binary gcc from tsx-11. This was more
convenient, but I still have the same problem: cannot exec as.
I tried looking through the distibution file lists, and could not find
"as" or "gas". I have already installed binutils, and all the other
packages which slackware descibed as mandatory prerequisites for gcc.
What's wrong with this picture?
Rob
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CAIP Computational Engineering Systems Lab
Rutgers University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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