Bug#4294: gcc -bi486-linux can't find cc1
David Engel wrote:
>Thomas Koenig writes:
>> David Engel wrote:
>> >> $ gcc -bi486-linuxaout hello.c
>> >> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory
>>
>> >This isn't a bug.
>>
>> To change a bug into a feature, it needs to be documented.
>
>This has been documented for ages.
It has been documented sufficiently that you need the "-V" flag
to get a particular version of gcc.
It has not been documented sufficiently that you need to specify
"-V 2.6.3" to compile an a.out package under Debian. This violates
the principle of least surprise.
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Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
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logarithmic diagram.
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