Jimen Ching wrote: >On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Vikram Khurana wrote: > >>install came with gcc 2.96 >>So I copied the gcc 2.95.3 files from another RH computer and put them >>under /usr/local/ on my computer. I also put the >>/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.3 path in PATH. However >>now I get an error >>ld: cannot open crtbeginS.o: No such file or directory >> > >It is not necessary to put /usr/local/lib/* in the PATH. The gcc in >/usr/local/bin will find the correct gcc-lib directory (if it was >installed correctly).
How do I know if gcc-lib was installed correctly or not? Why does the locate command not find any gcc files that I have installed? > >>crtbeginS.o does exist in the >>/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.3 directory so why the >>hell does it not find it?? >> > >Probably because the gcc you are using is /usr/bin/gcc. Which looks in >/usr/lib/gcc-lib for the support files. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# which gcc /usr/local/bin/gcc > > >>I'm drowning in gcc hell. Can somebody please tell me what I need to do >>to get past this problem? >> > >When you copied the gcc 2.95.3 from another RH system, was that from the >/usr/local prefix? You can not copy gcc from /usr to /usr/local. When >gcc was built, it is given the prefix directory. gcc will then use this >prefix directory to find things like libgcc*.a and crt*.o. You can try >use the -B option to tell gcc to look somewhere else. > No it was from /home/<username>/usr/local directory Would that make a difference? This gcc command is being called during compilation of a library. I don't think I can modify the source code for it? Thanks, Vikram
