Lo, on Saturday, January 18, Eric G. Miller did write: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 12:07:24PM +0100, Achton N. Netherclift wrote: > [snip] > > According to packages.debian.org, the file that is missing according to > > the config.logs (crt1.o) is contained in the libc6-dev package. The file is > > missing on my system, so I attempt to install it: > > AFAIK crt1.o would be a temporary file created from the combination of > "conftest.c" and some gcc parts when compiling the C file directly to > an executable. Your installation is incomplete because you don't have > libc6-dev installed. All that stuff about gcc not being able to produce > an executable... GCC needs some of the things provided by libc6-dev.
About half-right: [nanny-ogg:~]$ locate crt1.o /usr/lib/crt1.o /usr/lib/gcrt1.o /usr/lib/Mcrt1.o [nanny-ogg:~]$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/crt1.o libc6-dev: /usr/lib/crt1.o crt1.o is, I think, an object file containing a big chunk of the C/C++ runtime. In particular, it contains the startup code that does a bunch of initialization, then calls main(). After main() returns, it does a bunch of OS-specific cleanup, like taking main's return code and putting in the place where the OS expects to find the process's exit code. It's essentially part of the compiler/library infrastructure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
