Bug#438641: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

tag 438641 + moreinfo
reassign 438641 gcc
thanks

please recheck with gcc-4.3 and provide a use case for the request
(using libtool and explicitely specifying -lgcc? why?)

=?UTF-8?Q?Lo=C3=AFc?= Minier writes:
> Package: gcc-4.1
> Version: 4.1.2-15
> Severity: normal
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>  I'm trying to build a shared library which is linked statically against
>  any lib it needs; the -Wl,-static flag there seems to trigger the
>  following error when the -Wl,-z,defs is in place:
>     /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s
>     collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
>  Here's a simple C file, foo.c, to reproduce the problem:
>     void foo(void) {
>         return;
>     }
> 
>  Build with:
>     cc -c -o foo.o foo.c
>     cc -shared -Wl,-z,defs -o libfoo.so foo.o -Wl,-static
> 
>  There's no package in the archive providing libgcc_s.a, and I checked
>  an old gcc-4.1 build log for i386, and only libgcc_s.so seems to be
>  built.
>    However, I looked in /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.3 and found the
>  symbol in libgcc_eh.a.  After I ran "ln -s libgcc_eh.a libgcc_s.a", I
>  could build the above simple program.
> 
>  I don't know which signification "libgcc_eh" and "libgcc_s" have, but
>  it seems to me either gcc should look for libgcc_eh in the above case,
>  or that it should build libgcc_s.a, or that it shoud symlink libgcc_s.a
>  towards libgcc_eh.a.