Trouble building gcc on debian testing

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.lists@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm trying to build gcc from svn on debian testing, I manually solved
> a couple of obstacles like crti.o and crtn.o not being found. By cp
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/crti.o x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc/
>
> In which location are they expected?

Debian testing has chosen to move these files into subdirectories,
breaking gcc.

This problem will presumably be resolved by having some Debian engineer
contribute appropriate patches to gcc.  Since Debian testing presumably
comes with a compiler, somebody at Debian has presumably already written
those patches.

Ian