Re: Trouble compiling MIPS cross-compiler

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 05:27:53PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:

> > No idea what's going on, but at least it works and hopefully it won't 
> > overwrite my existing compiler when I install it ;-)
> 
> IIRC you need to configure with AS=mips-linux-as.

gcc uses as from the tools by default, then falls back to as in $PATH if
that fails.  So if you have to set the AS variable that's kludging around
the real problem.

  Ralf