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Re: Need help installing gcc on Linux

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From: J.H.M.Dassen
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <4adcq8$ha@one.mind.net>, Russel A Hill <rahill@mind.net> wrote:
>I just downloaded gcc-2.7.2.bin.tar.gz from sunsite.edu and followed the 
>instructions in release.gcc-2.7.2 for installation.  When I try to invoke gcc, 
>I get a message indicating that /usr/bin/gcc cannot does not exist.  I 
>checked.  It does... and the permissions and ownership are identical to other 
>programs that do run.  
>
>I know I've probably missed something simple, ...  but what is it.  

Most likely it's the following: your gcc binary is an ELF binary and 
you don't have the ELF shared libraries (available from sunsite too)
installed.

Take a look at the Linux & ELF web page and the ELF howto via
http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/users/barlow/linux-gcc.html

Hope this helps,
Ray
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Date: 1995/12/12
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