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Re: Building gcc on Ubuntu 11.10
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> Nenad Vukicevic <nenad@intrepid.com> writes:
>
>> Has anybody tried to build 4.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 system. I am getting the
>> following linking problem (no special configure switches):
>>
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc
>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
>>
>> Noramly they under /usr/lib64, but 11.10 has them under
>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu.
>
> Yes. ?Debian moved everything for some reason. ?It's a problem that must
> be addressed somehow before gcc 4.7 is released.
Not necessarily - it's a regression in Debian, not GCC.
> It's extremely unfortunate that this will make it impossible to build
> older releases of gcc on newer Debian installations.
Which means that Debian should at least provide some sort-of compat package
that re-wires things as GNU toolchains expect.
Richard.
> Ian