ld cannot find -lc

[Marc Glisse]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Amittai Aviram wrote:

>> Unpatched gcc doesn't work on recent debian/ubuntu.
>
> Thanks!  So would I avoid this problem altogether just by trying a more 
> recent GCC version?

No, sorry, 4.7 still won't work.

> I downloaded that one because it matches the 
> version that's already installed on the machine.  (I am trying to make 
> my own instrumented GCC to run some benchmarks with comparisons to the 
> non-instrumented, default, installed version.)

Then your best bet is to use the same patched sources as Ubuntu.
apt-get source gcc-4.4
(dpkg-buildpackage can help work out exactly what Ubuntu does to build a 
package)

-- 
Marc Glisse