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Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I'd appreciate any help.  I am
trying to install gcc 2.1 on an RS6000 running AIX with
version 3.1 of the assembler.  I am aware that (1) a
patch to the IBM assembler is required--it has been installed;
and (2) once the patch is installed, all "-gXXX" options
in the Makefile should be eliminated--this I also did.

Then I did a make LANGUAGES=c per INSTALL instructions.
In the process of that make, ./gcc is eventually executed.
The make fails at this point with the message:
 ./gcc: installation problem, cannot execute as; Permission denied.

"which as" shows no executable "as" in the path or elsewhere.

I looked through the Makefile and found a call to as associated with
the make macro "ALLOCA_FINISH", which I then set to nothing, and
started over after a make clean.  Same problem.

The command actually being executed was:
  ./gcc -O2 -B./ -I. -I. -I./config -c -DL_muldi3 ./libgcc2.c -o muldi3.o

Any ideas would be welcome.

Chris Evans
jce@ocean.geol.scarolina.edu