This error was received trying to compile sourced for the ARM EABI firmware from Embedded Artists using the gnu toolchain of CodeSourcery G++ Lite for ARM EABI.

The toolchain compile correctly the sources, generate libraries and create object files, but at link time linker reports the following error:

/home/tech/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.4.1/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld: cannot find -liberty

The specific linker command from the toolchain commands sequence is the following:

arm-none-eabi-gcc timer_example.o   ../common/crt0_gnu.o  -static -Wl,--start-group /home/tech/CodeSourcery/software/csps/lpc32xx/lib/liblpc32xxgnu.a /home/tech/CodeSourcery/software/csps/lpc32xx/bsps/ea3250/lib/libea3250gnu.a /home/tech/CodeSourcery/software/lpc/lib/liblpcarm926ej-sgnu.a -lgcc -lc -lg -lm -liberty -lstdc++ -lsupc++  -Wl,--end-group  -Xlinker -Map -Xlinker \
	timer.map -Xlinker -T   ../linker/ldscript_ram_gnu.ld   \
	-o timer.elf

After investigations and tests, the problem concerns libiberty library, that is installed in the toolchain of CodeSourcery only as static library and not shared.

Trying to find the library in the host, the result is the following:

$ find / -name *libiberty* -print

/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/sysroot/lib/libiberty.a
/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/sysroot/vfp/lib/libiberty.a
/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/lib/libiberty.a
/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/lib/vfp/libiberty.a
/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/lib/libiberty.a