>>> 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.
Note that there's a simple work around: export LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu So this shouldn't block GCC 4.7. Arno
