System Sun Fire 280R with dual USIII @ 750Mhz and 8G RAM. Solaris 01/01 media kit installed Can anyone point me to the reason this is happening? [ paul@tbd /usr/src/mysql-3.23.38 ] $ sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql loading cache ./config.cache checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8 checking target system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8 checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8 checking for a BSD compatible install... /opt/sfw/bin/ginstall -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal... found checking for working autoconf... found checking for working automake... found checking for working autoheader... found checking for working makeinfo... found checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes checking for gawk... gawk checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot create executables. Configure.log shows: This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. configure:812: checking host system type configure:833: checking target system type configure:851: checking build system type configure:886: checking for a BSD compatible install configure:939: checking whether build environment is sane configure:974: checking whether make sets ${MAKE} configure:1020: checking for working aclocal configure:1033: checking for working autoconf configure:1046: checking for working automake configure:1059: checking for working autoheader configure:1072: checking for working makeinfo configure:1174: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles configure:1216: checking whether build environment is sane configure:1233: checking whether make sets ${MAKE} configure:1301: checking for gawk configure:1333: checking for gcc configure:1446: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works configure:1462: gcc -o conftest conftest.c 1>&5 gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory configure: failed program was: #line 1457 "configure" #include "confdefs.h" main(){return(0);} I do have binutils installed [ paul@tbd /usr/src/mysql-3.23.38 ] $ pkginfo | grep binutils system SFWgbin binutils - GNU binary utilities Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php