On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > Nenad Vukicevic <ne...@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.
Not necessarily - it's a regression in Debian, not GCC. > It's extremely unfortunate that this will make it impossible to build > older releases of gcc on newer Debian installations. Which means that Debian should at least provide some sort-of compat package that re-wires things as GNU toolchains expect. Richard. > Ian
