Why does GCC give an error message "error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: No such file or directory"?

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Issue

  • While compiling a program on RHEL, gcc throws below error.
gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5
  • gcc-4.4.7-4.el6.x86_64

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