Hello.

After installing linux, I had to run a make file, which invoked the GCC compiler, in order to compile a device driver. No problems there. When I try to compile the simple helloWorld program (just an include to stdio.h and a print f and exit statement), however, I get the following error message. I've tried this as root as well, so it's not a permission issue

Error message is "gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': No such file or directory"

Am i missing something in my path that references a file called 'as' (the assember??) I've checked my path but didn't see that file anywhere. Anyone know what's going on?

What version of Linux are you using? What command did you use to compile the program?

The version is 9.1 of Mandrake. I just typed in the standard:

#cc -o foo foo.c

but i've also tried it with gcc in the place of cc, etc.

Strange.... did you install the development tools when installing Mandrake?

yea, i installed everything the rpm manager would let me. I think 'as' is the gcc assembler, and somehow it didn't get installed along with everything else for whatever reason. I'm trying to find it right now.