> Are you sure you don't have another gcc or cc1 in your path? The gcc > provided in the gcc package knows its own path.
Ah hah! gnats or dpkg seem to be the culprite: [lestat:~/.www/unabomber/unabomber_writings]$ locate gcc|grep "gcc$"|xargs file|grep -i exec /usr/bin/gcc: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 /usr/bin/gcc.orig-gcc: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, stripped dpkg --search gcc.orig-gcc diversion by gnat from: /usr/bin/gcc diversion by gnat to: /usr/bin/gcc.orig-gcc [lestat:/home/jimr]# vi hello.c [lestat:/home/jimr]# gcc hello.c gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory [lestat:/home/jimr]# gcc.orig-gcc hello.c [lestat:/home/jimr]# So is gnats is scr?wing over gcc? > Some of us aren't on the debian-devel list and it's not by choice. :-( I think newsgroups are the way to go... :)