GCC errors: unrecognized option '--as-needed'

Hi,
I am getting the following error when I try to compile a simple 'hello world' program. :
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--as-needed'
It's looking for the assembler program but for some reason can't find it and I don't know where to look for it. What happened was that I upgraded GCC from 3.2 to 3.3.4. GCC was working fine before but now it gives me this error. Can anybody help me fix this?
Amish

What commandline options did you specify?

No command line arguments.

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Originally Posted by axr0284

No command line arguments.

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so you're just typing gcc at the command line

try gcc -o programName inputfile.c