[Mingw-notify] [ mingw-Support Requests-1872028 ] gcc.exe fails to find as.exe

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Support Requests item #1872028, was opened at 2008-01-15 14:16
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Status: Open
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Submitted By: Carsten Milkau (carstenmilkau)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: gcc.exe fails to find as.exe

Initial Comment:
gcc seems to try to find as.exe on a linux path:

V:\>set PATH=c:\windows\system32;c:\windows;c:\MinGW\bin;c:\MinGW\i686-pc-mingw32\bin
V:\>c:\python25\python Setup.py build --compiler=mingw32
running build
running build_ext
building 'vickrey' extension
c:\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe -mno-cygwin -mdll -O -Wall -IC:\Python25\include -IC:\Python25\PC -c vickrey.c -o build\temp.win32-2.5\Release\vickrey.o
fixme:msvcrt:_spawnve only trying .exe when no extension given
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `\usr\libexec\gcc\mingw32\as': No such file or directory
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

installed packages:
binutils-2.17.50-20060824-1
gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-1
mingw-runtime-3.9
w32api-3.6

(binary versions, where applicable)
OS: Windows XP (emulated by wine-0.9.46)

No idea how to fix this. I don't even know whether this is a bug or my personal dumbness.

With Regards
Carsten

P.S. ... attached the project I'm trying to compile in case you can't reproduce.

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>Comment By: Keith Marshall (keithmarshall)
Date: 2008-01-18 12:52

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What platform are you running this on?  Your environment is a veritable
mish-mash of Linux/Woe32 settings; (predominantly Linux, but OS says WinNT,
ComSpec is defined as for Woe32, and PATH is in Woe32 format).

Are you, by any chance, trying to run a Woe32 native compile suite on a
Linux host, under Wine?  If so, then don't do that!  Install a properly
configured cross-compiler suite, and use it instead;
see:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=12644

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Comment By: Carsten Milkau (carstenmilkau)
Date: 2008-01-18 03:02

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output of gcc -print-prog-name=as (in build env):
/usr/libexec/gcc/mingw32/as
output of gcc -print-prog-name=as (on cmd line):
/usr/libexec/gcc/mingw32/as
output of set (on cmd line): 

CLASSPATH=.
COLORTERM=
ComSpec=c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/env.d/java/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/
/etc/udev/rules.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
/etc/revdep-rebuild
CONFIG_PROTECT=/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config
CVS_RSH=ssh
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-anBnGmIwlU,guid=dfd20f9bf2e38686a4e15900478fb9b1
DCCC_PATH=/usr/lib/distcc/bin
DESKTOP_SESSION=default
DISPLAY=:0
DISTCC_LOG=
DISTCC_VERBOSE=0
DM_CONTROL=/var/run/xdmctl
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim
GCC_SPECS=
GDK_USE_XFT=1
GENERATION=2
GS_LIB=/home/cami/.fonts
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/cami/.gtkrc:/home/cami/.kde3.5/share/config/gtkrc
GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/cami/.gtkrc-2.0:/home/cami/.kde3.5/share/config/gtkrc-2.0
INFOPATH=/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/info
JAVA_HOME=/home/cami/.gentoo/java-config-2/current-user-vm
JAVAC=/home/cami/.gentoo/java-config-2/current-user-vm/bin/javac
JDK_HOME=/home/cami/.gentoo/java-config-2/current-user-vm
KDE_FULL_SESSION=true
KDE_MULTIHEAD=false
KDE_SESSION_UID=1000
KDEDIRS=/usr:/usr/local:/usr/kde/3.5
KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION=DCOPRef(konsole-12100,session-1)
KONSOLE_DCOP=DCOPRef(konsole-12100,konsole)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8
LESS=-R -M --shift 5
LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s
LOGNAME=cami
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.pdf=00;32:*.ps=00;32:*.txt=00;32:*.patch=00;32:*.diff=00;32:*.log=00;32:*.tex=00;32:*.doc=00;32:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:
MANPATH=/home/cami/.gentoo/java-config-2/current-user-vm/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/man:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03/man:/etc/java-config/system-vm/man/:/usr/lib/php5/man/:/usr/kde/3.5/share/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
OPENGL_PROFILE=nvidia
OS=Windows_NT
PAGER=/usr/bin/less
PATH=c:\windows\system32;c:\windows;c:\MinGW\bin;c:\Python25
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/qt/3/lib/pkgconfig
PRELINK_PATH_MASK=/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 67 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=4303
ProgramFiles=c:\Programme
PWD=/home/cami/Dokumente/Entwicklung/Vickrey
PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/portage/pym
QMAKESPEC=linux-g++
QTDIR=/usr/qt/3
SANE_CONFIG_DIR=/etc/sane.d
SESSION_MANAGER=local/cami:/tmp/.ICE-unix/11935
SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/etc/sgml/sgml-docbook.cat:/etc/sgml/openjade-1.3.2.cat:/etc/sgml/sgml-ent.cat:/etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat:/etc/sgml/sgml-lite.cat:/etc/sgml/dsssl-docbook-stylesheets.cat
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHLVL=2
SYSTEMROOT=c:\windows
TEMP=c:\windows\temp
TERM=xterm
TMP=c:\windows\temp
USER=cami
USERNAME=cami
USERPROFILE=c:\windows\profiles\cami
VMHANDLE=blackdown-jdk-1.4.2
windir=c:\windows
WINDOWID=62914565
winsysdir=c:\windows\system32
XCURSOR_THEME=default
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/usr/kde/3.5/etc/xdg
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/kde/3.5/share:/usr/local/share
XDM_MANAGED=/var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0,maysd,mayfn,sched,rsvd,method=classic

It's less trivial to get the output of set in the build env, so I'll do
that tomorrow, if you think it's necessary.

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Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2008-01-17 21:36

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And what is the output of ``set''?

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Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2008-01-17 19:03

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What is the output of ``gcc -print-prog-name=as''?

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Comment By: Carsten Milkau (carstenmilkau)
Date: 2008-01-17 17:00

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Thanks for the --verbose hint, that's exactly what I wanted.
Unfortunately, 
the information it gives doesn't give any hints about the problem (only 
stderr):

Reading specs from c:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/specs
Configured 
with: ../gcc-3.4.5/configure --with-gcc --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as
--host=mingw32 --target=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw --enable-threads
--disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,ada,objc,java
--disable-win32-registry --disable-shared --enable-sjlj-exceptions
--enable-libgcj --disable-java-awt --without-x --enable-java-gc=boehm
--disable-libgcj-debug --enable-interpreter --enable-hash-synchronization
--enable-libstdcxx-debug
Thread model: win32
gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw special)
 c:/MinGW/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/cc1.exe -quiet -v -IC:
\Python25\include -IC:\Python25\PC -iprefix c:
\MinGW\bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/ vickrey.c -quiet -dumpbase 
vickrey.c -mno-cygwin -mdll -auxbase-strip 
build\temp.win32-2.5\Release\vickrey.o -ggdb -O -Wall -Wall -version -o
c:
\windows\temp/ccXaaaaa.s
ignoring nonexistent 
directory
"c:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../mingw32/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/mingw/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/mingw/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/mingw/lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/mingw/mingw32/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/mingw/include"
ignoring nonexistent directory "C:/Python25/PC"
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 C:/Python25/include
 c:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../include
 c:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/include
End of search list.
GNU C version 3.4.5 (mingw special) (mingw32)
        compiled by GNU C version 3.4.5 (mingw special).
GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param
ggc-min-heapsize=131072
[... non-related compiler warnings ...]
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `\usr\libexec\gcc\mingw32\as': No
such 
file or directory
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Looks fine to me ... of course I didn't mess with any environment
variables, 
if they are set, distutils set them.

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Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2008-01-17 13:20

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Something in your environment has told GCC that AS is pathed as
\usr\libexec\gcc\mingw32\as.  Look for environment issues such as a
variable named AS being defined.  The MinGW gcc uses relative pathing to
determine where to find its executables; the path you've stated for AS is
an absolute path which tells me it isn't GCC that is the issue.  Try adding
--verbose to the gcc command.

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Comment By: Carsten Milkau (carstenmilkau)
Date: 2008-01-16 22:32

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The build process doesn't (directly) call as at all, it's gcc that's
looking it up in the wrong location.

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Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2008-01-16 15:17

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Your build process thinks ``\usr\libexec\gcc\mingw32\as'' is the path to
the assembler compiler, why?  It should be ``c:\MinGW\bin\as''.

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Comment By: Carsten Milkau (carstenmilkau)
Date: 2008-01-16 01:30

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Hmm personally I don't think so, for two reasons:
* I'm using a sober windows version of python/distutils without any
settings to compiler environment (but --compiler=mingw)
* Python doesn't call as directly but gcc instead and there were
(symptomatically) similar problems with vista and gcc/cc1

Do you know an easy way to check whether the gcc environment is flawed
eventually?

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Comment By: Earnie Boyd (earnie)
Date: 2008-01-15 23:32

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This is an issue with your Python script or your environment.  My SWAG is
that it has given the AS environment the wrong path for the as executable.

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Comment By: Carsten Milkau (carstenmilkau)
Date: 2008-01-15 14:21

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update: added c:\MingW\mingw32\bin to %PATH% with identical results.

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