Bug#1113854: gcc-14-x86-64-linux-gnu: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-14 calls /usr/bin/as without dependency on binutils

[Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>]

Package: gcc-14-x86-64-linux-gnu
Version: 14.3.0-5
Severity: serious

echo '' | x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-14 -x c -c -
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-14: fatal error: cannot execute 'as': posix_spawnp: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

This is a recent regression, about a week ago this was still working
because there was still an indirect dependency on binutils (2.45-4)
(but I don't want to blame any package for removing that.)

gcc-14-x86-64-linux-gnu depends on binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu, so I'd
expect it to call /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-as etc. instead of
/usr/bin/as etc.

This bug was exposed by the dkms upstream testsuite which in
Debian/testing/amd64 simply installs linux-headers-amd64 and uses the
compiler from the kernel configuration to build test modules.


Andreas