I just upgraded my gcc to 4.8.3 and tried a compilation, and got the error above. I see that there's been some previous discussion of this error, including whether gcc is started from /usr/bin or /bin; tried both, no difference. See below:
$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin: /usr/bin: /bin: /usr/X11R6/bin: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/wbem: /cygdrive/c/program files/intel/dmix: . . . Tried starting gcc with -v option; here's the tail end of the result: . . . GNU C (GCC) version 4.8.3 (i686-pc-cygwin) compiled by GNU C version 4.8.3, GMP version 6.0.0, MPFR version 3.1.2, MPC version 1.0.2 GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072 Compiler executable checksum: a39cfdacc7868ff2412ca54ce8f22425 COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-o' 'Qualcomm_enc_dec.exe' '-mtune=generic' '-march=i686' as -v -o /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/friedman/LOCALS~1/Temp/cca1VHLo.o /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/friedman/LOCALS~1/Temp/ccuVhtdU.s gcc: error: spawn: No such file or directory And all I wanted to do was compile and run some C code. Any suggestions of workarounds? Thanks in advance for any useful ideas. David F. 2014 May 30 11:18 CDT -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple