Description of problem: The "gcc-ar" program worked fine in F18. In F19 Beta RC2 it always fails with "Cannot find binary 'ar'" "gcc-ar" is necessary for anybody who wants to use the "-lto" feature with gcc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ yum whatprovides `which gcc-ar` ... gcc-4.8.0-2.fc19.x86_64 : Various compilers (C, C++, Objective-C, Java, ...) Repo : @fedora Matched from: Filename : /usr/bin/gcc-ar How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Invoke gcc-ar on any .a file you have. For example: gcc-ar t /usr/lib64/libg.a 2. Observe error message 3. Actual results: $ gcc-ar t /usr/lib64/libg.a gcc-ar: Cannot find binary 'ar' Expected results: $ gcc-ar t /usr/lib64/libg.a dummy.o Additional info: Anybody whose project requires gcc's link time optimization is going to be broken by this. It means I cannot use stock F19 as a development platform.
From looking at strace output, gcc-ar is looking in the following two places for ar: ...snip... 3569 stat("/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.0/../../../../x86_64-redhat-linux/bin/ar", 0x7fffa0b1fa00) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 3569 stat("/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.0/ar", 0x7fffa0b1fa00) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) 3569 write(2, "gcc-ar: Cannot find binary 'ar'\n", 32) = 32 3569 exit_group(1) = ? 3569 +++ exited with 1 +++ From going through changelogs, apparently the tools expect ar (and nm and ranlib) to be installed at /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.0. Or I guess to be hardlinked to those places, since we obviously still want those tools at /usr/bin as well.
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