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Old 07-14-2004, 02:58 PM   #1
Dargason
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Compiling GCC (pass1):ld cannot find -lc


Ok, I downloaded all the sources, and I've been closely following the instructions in the book. Everything was fine until I compiled GCC 3.3.3 (first pass) as follows:

make BOOT_LDFLAGS="-static" bootstrap

Unfortunately, the result was (after a few minutes, of course):

Code:
echo stage2_build > stage_last
make CC=" stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/" \
         STAGE_PREFIX=stage1/ \
         ADAC="\$(CC)" AR_FOR_TARGET="ar" RANLIB_FOR_TARGET="ranlib" CFLAGS="-g -O2" LDFLAGS="-static" WARN_CFLAGS="\$(GCC_WARN_CFLAGS)" STRICT_WARN="-Wtraditional -pedantic -Wno-long-long" libdir=/tools/lib LANGUAGES="c gcov " MAKEOVERRIDES= OUTPUT_OPTION="-o \$@"
make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/gcc'
stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -c   -g -O2 -DIN_GCC   -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wtraditional -pedantic -Wno-long-long   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGENERATOR_FILE    -I. -I. -I../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc -I../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/. -I../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/config -I../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/../include ../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/gengenrtl.c -o gengenrtl.o
stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/   -g -O2 -DIN_GCC   -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wtraditional -pedantic -Wno-long-long   -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGENERATOR_FILE -static -o gengenrtl \
 gengenrtl.o ../libiberty/libiberty.a
/tools/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [gengenrtl] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/gcc'
make[1]: *** [stage2_build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build/gcc'
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
It looks like the problem is that the linker can't find "-lc". I was looking at the output of the binutils build, and I noticed a couple places where the configure output said something like "Check to see if -lc should be explicitly linked" or something like that, along with other errors stating that "complete static linking is impossible in this environment."

Any suggestions? How do I go about troubleshooting this?

If it matters, I'm using Mandrake 10 as my host.

Thanks,
Mike
 
Old 07-14-2004, 06:13 PM   #2
Andrew Benton
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My suggestion would be to read the FAQ. I didn't read the FAQ when I hit this error, I did what I always do when I get an error, I fed the error message into Google. Google told me to read the FAQ http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/...cannot-find-lc
 
Old 07-15-2004, 02:48 AM   #3
Dargason
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Wow... I know I read the FAQ (at least all the links there are purple) but somehow that escaped me. Thanks for the help (and for being polite!)

Mike
 
  


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