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> I'm desperately trying to install ssh onto a Solaris 7 system (SPARC).
> Since no compiler comes with Solaris, I downloaded gcc-2.95.1 from
> sunfreeware.com and installed it, together with make-3.77.
> However whenever I run configure for ssh, it stops with the following
> message:
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot
> create executables.
> 
> When I look into the config.log file, I find a bit more info:
> 
> configure:927: checking for gcc
> configure:1004: checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g ) works
> configure:1018: gcc -o conftest -g   conftest.c  1>&5
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory
> configure: failed program was:
> #line 1014 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> main(){return(0);}
> 
> Now I think the problem is that there's no such "as" file on my system. So
> I tried to install gcc-2.8.1 hoping that this would solve the problem, but
> it's exactly the same.
> Does anyone know what I can do to solve this? Thanks.

as is the assembler used by gcc to generate object code.  You may or may
not have an assembler already on Solaris 7 (/usr/ccs/bin???) but there
is a GNU one available in the binutils package which will probably be
available from the same place you got gcc-2.95.1 from and will install
as where gcc expects to find it.

Good luck!

Jim.