| Summary: | Packaging: gcc specs file refers to .o files from old packages | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | chaoticinc |
| Component: | egcs | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | ||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1999-11-01 01:33:17 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
crt1.o and friends are part of the glibc-devel package. I'm not going to make egcs depend on it, though, because gcc can still function if you are using -nostdlib. In one sense, this is the wrong answer, because -nostdlib is kind of an obscure thing to do. But I suspect it is the cleanest answer until/unless RPM gets more sophisticated dependencies (recommend, required, suggested, etc). |
I attempted to test the gcc functionality of the standard 6.0 distribution on a pentium machine and found broken file linkages and dependencies The /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs file used to control gcc refers to files crt1.o, crti.o and crtn.o which are not a part of the files in the package egcs-1.1.2-12 or any of the packages it depends on. These files are only found in the compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.1 package which is only supposed to be required for backward compatible compiling. As a result, an attempt to compile even an empty file such as 'test.c' below will result in an error from gcc of the following: > gcc test.c /usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status The 'crt1.o' file should exist in the new package glibc-2.1.1-6 or the 'specs' file should be updated for the new compiler and libaries. I am not at all sure which is correct. If the 'compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.1' package is required, then the dependencies should be added for rpm deployment and the rpm documentation modified.