I have been using the antiquated cdk4msp version of mspgcc for several
years and finally decided to try and get with the times. So I grabbed
the latest version of mspgcc4 from git today and tried to build it.
Things went well for a while but then died. Digging down into the error
logs I found this in...mspgcc4/build/gcc-4.4.5-build/gcc/config.log:


gcc version 4.5.1 20100924 (Red Hat 4.5.1-4) (GCC)
configure:2400: $? = 0
configure:2402: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:2405: $? = 1
configure:2428: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2431: gcc -g -O2   conftest.c  >&5
/opt/msp430-gcc-4.4.5/msp430/bin/as: unrecognized option '-Qy'
configure:2434: $? = 1


I was noodling around, reading the info pages for 'as' trying to find
out what option -Qy was supposed to mean. I didn't find it there and
decided to try 'as -h' on a lark. I was somewhat surprised when it told
me it was the msp430 version. Then I noticed that my current directory
was in the gcc build directory (I was looking at config.log) and sure
enough 'as' was there.

Then a light bulb went on and I realized that so long ago that I have
nearly forgotten about it I had edited .bash_profile to include the
current directory at the start of my search path. This was causing gcc
to find the just built msp430 version of 'as' in the current directory
instead of the intended native version. After editing the PATH I started
the build process again and all went well.


Is this problem deserving of a bug report?


-- 
David W. Schultz
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