Hi linux experts,

I'm having a small problem. let me first explain my situation.

I downloaded a multiprocessor simulator called LIMES. i also downloaded gcc 2.6.3 from the LIMES homepage b/c it requires that version and in my redhat 7.3 linux i have gcc 2.95.

all this is done in a terminal:
so i unzip everything and place LIMES in /home/limes and gcc2.3.6 in /usr/local/oldgcc. next i edit several makefiles for LIMES to redirect it to look into /usr/local/oldgcc. next i go into /home/limes/applications/fft and run make to build a fft program. however, i am given an error that the binary file (gcc) could not be executed. so what i do is build a hello world function called test.c then i call
% /usr/local/oldgcc/usr/bin/gcc test.c
well this again gives me the same error that the binary file could not be executed.
so i cd into /usr/local/oldgcc/usr/bin/ and call
% gcc /home/limes/applications/fft/test.c
well guess what? it works. it creates a.out
so then i though well let me try calling
% ../bin/gcc /home/limes/applications/fft/test.c
then it gives me the same error as before.
so whenever i access gcc through directories i get the error. i was wondering does anyone know why?

also, when i ran the successful gcc call and was given a.out, i tried running it by typing
% a.out
but it says command not found. this is the same error i get when trying to run other executable files such as audiogalaxy. am i doing something wrong???

any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks

frustrated
-srkherad

Well downloaded LIMES and the oldgcc tarball from the site. Created a sample c file and tried to complie it and got the same error (bash: /home/.../usr/bin/gcc: cannot execute binary file). That's what I wanted to see. So I droped down into the directory and tried it again. Got my out file, but started thinking what if that call to gcc wasn't to the version that you were expecting. And guess what ?
$ gcc --version
2.96

Tried to call it the proper way.
$ ./gcc --version
bash: ./gcc: cannot execute binary file

So my suggestion is to go to ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/old-gnu/gcc/ and get your version there.

thanks so much for the ftp site. i tried looking for a gccc 2.6.3 download but wasn't successful.

so anyways, i downloaded gcc 2.6.3 from the public gnu ftp site you gave me and i was trying to configure it but it told me that it does not recognize my system PentIII(i686). is there any way to get around this? I kind of need the LIMES software which only works with this version of gcc, unless you know of another multiprocessor simulator that will run on a single PC for testing purposes. thanks

This one runs whatever gcc happens to be first in your path.