gcc collect2: cannot find `ld'

TecH T4nK X10 · 03-11-2010, 01:12 PM

Code:

collect2: cannot find `ld'

I'm getting this error when I try to compile any program with gcc. It doesn't matter what it is, how can I fix this?

Galib · 03-11-2010, 01:20 PM

What is the output for

Code:

whereis ld

and

Code:

ld

?

TecH T4nK X10 · 03-11-2010, 01:37 PM

Here's my output

Quote:

whereis ld
ld: /usr/bin/ld /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz
ld
/bin/sh: line 2: /usr/bin/ld: Permission denied

Tinkster · 03-11-2010, 02:32 PM

That's quite odd ...
What's the output of

Code:

ls -l /usr/bin/ld
file /usr/bin/ld

TecH T4nK X10 · 03-11-2010, 02:55 PM

Here ya go. Thanks for the help so far.

Quote:

ls -l /usr/bin/ld
-rwxr-x--- 1 root compiler 323432 Jul 25 2008 /usr/bin/ld
file /usr/bin/ld
/usr/bin/ld: writable, executable, regular file, no read permission

Tinkster · 03-11-2010, 04:08 PM

Peculiar ... which distro are you using, how did you install
gcc & its mates?

Cheers,
Tink

TecH T4nK X10 · 03-11-2010, 04:17 PM

I'm using CentOS 4.8. Gcc was already installed.

Tinkster · 03-11-2010, 04:28 PM

Hmmm ... don't have that version floating around, but find the
perms very odd indeed. In RHEL 5.2 it looks like

Code:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 517608 Oct 30 2008  /usr/bin/ld

Can you run an rpm verify against your gcc install?
In that case it's actually binutils you want to check.

Cheers,
Tink

Tinkster · 03-11-2010, 04:40 PM

In addition to the above: on RHEL (which Centos is modeled after)
there doesn't even exist a 'compiler' group which your ld is owned
by ... this is rather bizarre.

Cheers,
Tink