Description of problem:

binutils-devel RPM no longer ships libiberty.a:

[root@localhost SPECS]# rpm -q --provides binutils
binutils = 2.35.2-32.el9
binutils(x86-64) = 2.35.2-32.el9
bundled(libiberty)
libbfd-2.35.2-32.el9.so()(64bit)
libctf-nobfd.so.0()(64bit)
libctf-nobfd.so.0(LIBCTF_1.0)(64bit)
libctf.so.0()(64bit)
libctf.so.0(LIBCTF_1.0)(64bit)
libopcodes-2.35.2-32.el9.so()(64bit)
[root@localhost SPECS]# 

[root@localhost SPECS]# rpm -ql binutils-devel
/usr/include/ansidecl.h
/usr/include/bfd.h
/usr/include/bfd_stdint.h
/usr/include/bfdlink.h
/usr/include/ctf-api.h
/usr/include/ctf.h
/usr/include/demangle.h
/usr/include/diagnostics.h
/usr/include/dis-asm.h
/usr/include/libiberty.h
/usr/include/plugin-api.h
/usr/include/symcat.h
/usr/lib64/libbfd.a
/usr/lib64/libbfd.so
/usr/lib64/libctf-nobfd.a
/usr/lib64/libctf-nobfd.la
/usr/lib64/libctf.a
/usr/lib64/libctf.la
/usr/lib64/libopcodes.a
/usr/lib64/libopcodes.so
[root@localhost SPECS]# 

The file seems to be missing yet announced in Provides, and it seems to be related to recent cross-binutils works. binutils-2.35.2-26 does ship it, binutils-2.35.2-27.el9 does not.

According to specfile, libiberty.a is build and installed, but then it's removed, unlike some other files:

 869 %else
 870 # For cross-binutils we drop the documentation.
 871 rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_infodir}
 872 # We keep these as one can have native + cross binutils of different versions.
 873 #rm -rf {buildroot}{_prefix}/share/locale
 874 #rm -rf {buildroot}{_mandir}
 875 rm -rf %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libiberty.a
 876 # Remove libtool files, which reference the .so libs
 877 rm -f %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/*.la
 878 %endif


I'm not sure whether this is on purpose, in any case it might affect builds of other packages, I for one ran into this dyninst build issue:

-- ElfUtils includes: /usr/include;/usr/include/elfutils;/usr/include/elfutils
-- ElfUtils library dirs: /usr/lib64;/usr/lib64/elfutils;/usr/lib64;/usr/lib64;/usr/lib64/elfutils
-- ElfUtils libraries: /usr/lib64/libelf.so.1;/usr/lib64/libdw.so.1;/usr/lib64/libdebuginfod.so.1
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
  Could NOT find LibIberty (missing: LibIberty_LIBRARIES)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:594 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  cmake/Modules/FindLibIberty.cmake:64 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
  cmake/LibIberty.cmake:44 (find_package)
  CMakeLists.txt:40 (include)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

binutils-2.35.2-32.el9


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