Today I wanted to recompile one of my projects. Compiling this project had already worked on my machine, but this time an error occured.
The compiler output goes:
fatal error: as: unknown host architecture (can't determine which assembler to run)`
for the line:
g++ -c -pipe -O2 -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/share/qt4/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I../../.vscode -I/usr/include/qt4/QtCore -I/usr/include/qt4/QtGui -I/usr/include/qt4 -I. -I../../.vscode -I. -o Main.o ../../Main.cpp
I tried to compile some other projects, but realized, that I wouldn't be able to compile anything using any c++ compiler, so I looked it up.
The only fitting thread I found was this one but the solution 'reinstalling binutils' didn't work for me (tried sudo apt-get install --reinstall binutils as well as --reinstall gcc, g++ and build-essential)
One possible reason for this problem that comes to my mind is the iOS-toolchain I installed yesterday - I had to install some different clang versions - but I actually didn't change anything on the system's assembler...
If someone's got an idea; any help would be appreciated :)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64bit
AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor × 6
uname -m
returns x86_64
gcc -march=native -v -E - 2>&1 <<<'' | grep "cc1" | egrep -o -e $'-m(arch|tune)=[^ "\']+'
returns -march=bdver2 and -mtune=bdver2
already tried gcc [...] -march with bdver2 and other architectures
g++ -v -c HelloWorld.cpp gives me: http://pastebin.com/Ks2be0hL
type -a as says:
as is /usr/local/bin/as
as is /usr/bin/as
as --version sadly just show's me the error again, but info as tells me it's binutils-2.26.1-system from 2016-08-07
dpkg -S /usr/bin/as prints: binutils: /usr/bin/as
type -a as says as is /usr/local/bin/as. This is what gcc is running, not /usr/bin/as, because /usr/local/bin/as is found first in your $PATH search order. This is why re-installing packages and so on is having no effect: something else you installed (probably manually) installed a non-standard as.
Have a look at /usr/local/bin/as and figure out where it came from, and what to do with it. For now you can just rename it to as.unknown or something, and then everything will use the normal system assembler (/usr/bin/as).