Building gcc on Ubuntu 11.10

[Matthias Klose]

On 09.02.2012 07:33, Ian Lance Taylor 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.
>
> It's extremely unfortunate that this will make it impossible to build
> older releases of gcc on newer Debian installations.

a patch is pending, but afaiu, Joseph requested some kind of official definition 
for the multiarch triplets which do not yet exist at this point of time.  If 
this is not an absolute requirement, I can update my patch again, and only 
enable it, when an explicit configure option is provided.

   Matthias