Hi Dennis. Solaris is only the host and the target is powerpc-eabi. We are upgrading from 2.95 (I think its 2.95, I can't remember right now) to 4.2.0. The binutils and gcc builds appeared to be ok, but when I tried to do a compile, the 2.95 assembler was being called. I posted here on this problem a few weeks ago and got no response. Thanks John Morrison Printronix, Inc -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Clarke [mailto:dclarke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:38 AM To: John Morrison Cc: Langella Raphael; gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Wrong assembler used with gcc 4.3.0 on Solaris 9 > Hi Raphael. > > Does the environment variable GCC_EXEC_PREFIX point to where the > binutils are? > > I had a similar problem and while searching for answers I some how > came across this document: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Environment-Variables.html > > I changed the value to the env var and all seems to be working well. > Why would you use binutils when Solaris provides a native as and ld ? Dennis