Bug 1802238

Summary: Broken symbolic links in the gcc-toolset-9-gcc package
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Jaromir Hradilek <jhradile>
Component: gcc-toolset-9Assignee: Marek Polacek <mpolacek>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: qe-baseos-tools-bugs
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Version: 8.1CC: ahajkova, jakub
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Description Jaromir Hradilek 2020-02-12 17:07:17 UTC 
Description of problem:
When browsing the discussions on the Customer Portal, I noticed a thread about a missing libasan library in the gcc-toolset-9-gcc package:

https://access.redhat.com/discussions/4724561

After installing this package on my RHEL 8 machine, I noticed that this problem is not limited just to libasan, but there is the total number of 9 broken symbolic links that point to their i686 counterparts that are not present in the system and don't seem to be included in any other package that I have access to with my subscription.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gcc-toolset-9-gcc-9.1.1-2.4.el8.x86_64


How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install the latest version of the gcc-toolset-9-gcc package:

   # dnf install gcc-toolset-9-gcc

2. Look for broken symbolic links in the /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/ directory:

  # find /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/ -xtype l


Actual results:
[root@eight ~]# find /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/ -xtype l
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/9/32/libasan.a
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/9/32/libasan_preinit.o
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/9/32/libatomic.a
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/9/32/libitm.a
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/9/32/libquadmath.a
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/9/32/libubsan.a
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/9/32/libstdc++.a
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/9/32/libstdc++_nonshared.a
/opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/9/32/libstdc++fs.a
[root@eight ~]#


Expected results:
[root@eight ~]# find /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/ -xtype l
[root@eight ~]#


Additional info:
[root@eight ~]# dnf provides /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-9/root/usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/9/libasan.a
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Comment 1 Marek Polacek 2020-02-12 17:12:19 UTC 
Not a bug, this is intentional.  Same in DTS.
Comment 2 Marek Polacek 2020-02-18 21:48:32 UTC 
(The symlinks will be satisfied if the corresponding *.i686 packages are installed.)

Closing, though we could use Recommends: instead of Requires: on newer RHELs.