I am trying to compile some C code using GNU tools, gcc and ld. I have created a makefile and compiled my soruces to .o successfully. I then linked the object files to a executable file and seems to work. WHen I try to run the executable file I get an error message - /usr/lib/libc.o.1:Bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory. The error message is correct, there is no /usr/lib/libc.o.1 file. In my makefile, in the line to link (ld) I have the option -lc. Remove this and I cannot compile due to the linker not finding the lib files for items like malloc, send,put,etc. I have tried all different ways to make the linker find the correct lib files but with no success. DOes anybody know if this file /usr/lib/libc.o.1 is suppose to exist? I installed Red Hat Linux on my PC. Here is another issue. If I create 1 dummy C file, compile just that file, and link to an executable with -lc, I don't get the ELF error. This problem only happens when I link multipule object files.
Does anybody out there know anything about this? THis problems pertains to my job and I need to get this software working ASAP.

well, I have a libc.so

just edit the MAKEFILE and make it libc.so OR libc.so.1

gcc links to libc automatically for you

you need to show us exactly the commands you are using or show us the makefile
before we can know what is going on

Parts of my makefile that do the linking
FULLSIM: $(OBJFILES)
$(LD) -o FULLSIM -r ($LD_FILES)
$(LD) -o fullsim.out FULLSIM -lc

Just a simple snapshoot of my makefile Link portion

i really can't make heads or tails out of that
but is there any reason you can't eliminate the -r relocatable option and just do
$(LD) -o FULLSIM ($LD_FILES) -lc
all in one line ?
or better yet as i said before if you just use gcc instead of ld all you need is
$(CC) (if that's gcc) and assuming ($LD_FILES) are object files compiled with gcc -c
if your programm contains any c++ code use g++ instead of gcc
$(CC) -o FULLSIM ($LD_FILES)
this will produce a properly linked executable

also with what you have there your executable in the end is fullsim.out not FULLSIM yes
if you are trying to run FULLSIM then the runtime trouble obvoiusly is it -r (is just partially linked)
might just reverse the two like


$(LD) -o fullsim.out -r ($LD_FILES)
$(LD) -o FULLSIM fullsim.out -lc

Usually you just want to let gcc invoke ld for you. It automatically adds some extra command lineoptions that actually make things work correctly (I think if you invoke gcc in verbose mode, you can see what they are). Invoking ld by hand (rather than through gcc) is generally only done when you need to invoke some really special linker magic, or at least that's been my experience.