Re: Problem with gcc
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just upgraded to the latest frozen in my nearest mirror and have
> started having problems with gcc. I get the following message:
>
> $ gcc -c programa.cc
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory
> $
>
> Using egcc rather than gcc seems to work, though:
> $ egcc -c programa.cc
> $
>
> Any clues as to what might be happening are appreciated as I can't do any
> debian work like this.
Yes, you're trying to compile C++ code with gcc instead of g++. g++ uses
the egcs (egcc) engine, so the standard gcc frontend doesn't know what to
do with c++ code anymore. Use g++/c++ to compile C++ code and it will
work.
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