as problem, PPC

[Brett Dikeman <brett@arthur.malebolge.com>]

<grrr>
Ok, I just installed two RPM's from someone who built egcs on the Linux-ppc
platform.(10-26 snapshot I believe.)
After uninstalling gcc and gcc-c++ packages, I installed the two RPM's
containing egcs-c and egcs-c++.  Both installed fine.
I also installed an RPM with binutils-2.8.1.0.11, which went fine as well.

However, every time I compile something, it dies with a fatal error,
reporting that it "can't execute 'as', no such file or directory."
Weeeelll, ok, so I copy /usr/bin/as to
/usr/lib/....etc..../ppc-linux/egcs...etc.../as

well, now it reports:
"can't execute '/usr/lib/<snip>/as', no such file or directory."
(I simlified the paths with ...'s and etc's and <snip>, egcs didn't print
that out :)

So, I get curious:
$/usr/bin/as
bash: /usr/bin/as: no such file or directory

what the???

The only time I've seen this is when I messed up the shabang in a
shell/perl script and bash couldn't execute it, but I've _never_ seen a
binary do this!

Any ideas/suggestions?  Could it be generating this message because it
can't find a shared lib(I thought this was usually very explicitly reported
as something like "missing libraries X, Y, Z")?

Brett

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