It's back -- "gcc: error: spawn: No such file or directory"

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:19:37AM -0500, David Friedman wrote:
>I just upgraded my gcc to 4.8.3 and tried a compilation, and got the
>error above.  I see that there's been some previous discussion of this
>error, including whether gcc is started from /usr/bin or /bin; tried
>both, no difference.  See below:
>
>$ echo $PATH
>/usr/local/bin:
>/usr/bin:
>/bin:
>/usr/X11R6/bin:
>/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:
>/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS:
>/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/wbem:
>/cygdrive/c/program files/intel/dmix:
> . . .

Try removing /bin from your path entirely.

cgf

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