https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68626
--- Comment #8 from john.frankish at outlook dot com ---
Ah...
$strace nm test.o
...
lstat("/usr/local/bin/nm", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=37, ...}) = 0
readlink("/usr/local/bin/nm", "/tmp/tcloop/binutils/usr/local/b"..., 4095) = 37
lstat("/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0777, st_size=240, ...}) = 0
lstat("/tmp/tcloop", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0775, st_size=2660, ...}) = 0
lstat("/tmp/tcloop/binutils", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=26, ...}) = 0
lstat("/tmp/tcloop/binutils/usr", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=28, ...}) = 0
lstat("/tmp/tcloop/binutils/usr/local", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=85,
...}) = 0
lstat("/tmp/tcloop/binutils/usr/local/bin", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=228,
...}) = 0
lstat("/tmp/tcloop/binutils/usr/local/bin/nm", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755,
st_size=37088, ...}) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD,
"/tmp/tcloop/binutils/usr/local/bin/../bin/../lib/bfd-plugins",
O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
$ sudo cp /tmp/tcloop/binutils/usr/local/bin/nm /usr/local/bin
$ nm test.o
00000000 T f
Is that the expected result?
In this distro, packages are loop mounted squashfs symlinked to the root file
system...
