diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 6c1bbd78e5..56b6e60ad5 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2010-03-19  Doug Evans  <dje@google.com>
 
+	* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_compile_test): Watch for "compiler not installed"
+	output from gcc.
+
 	* gdb.base/break-interp.exp (prelinkNO): Handle prelink binaries
 	named /usr/sbin/prelink<foo>.
 
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
index 6ed661ef2c..c62f706bfb 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
@@ -1267,6 +1267,8 @@ proc gdb_compile_test {src output} {
 	unsupported "compilation [file tail $src]"
     } elseif { [regexp {.*: command not found[\r|\n]*$} $output] } {
 	unsupported "compilation [file tail $src]"
+    } elseif { [regexp {.*: [^\r\n]*compiler not installed[^\r\n]*[\r|\n]*$} $output] } {
+	unsupported "compilation [file tail $src]"
     } else {
 	verbose -log "compilation failed: $output" 2
 	fail "compilation [file tail $src]"