[Bug c/46104] New: Linker error "cannot find -liberty"

[Bug c/46104] New: Linker error "cannot find -liberty"

[enrico.miglino at ovi dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46104

           Summary: Linker error "cannot find -liberty"
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.1.2
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: P3
         Component: c
        AssignedTo: unassigned@gcc.gnu.org
        ReportedBy: enrico.miglino@ovi.com
                CC: dougmencken@gmail.com
              Host: Ubuntu 10.04 LT
            Target: ARM LPC32xx


This error was received trying to compile sourced for the ARM EABI firmware
from Embedded Artists using the gnu toolchain of CodeSourcery G++ Lite for ARM
EABI.

The toolchain compile correctly the sources, generate libraries and create
object files, but at link time linker reports the following error:

/home/tech/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/4.4.1/../../../../arm-none-eabi/bin/ld:
cannot find -liberty

The specific linker command from the toolchain commands sequence is the
following:

arm-none-eabi-gcc timer_example.o   ../common/crt0_gnu.o  -static
-Wl,--start-group
/home/tech/CodeSourcery/software/csps/lpc32xx/lib/liblpc32xxgnu.a
/home/tech/CodeSourcery/software/csps/lpc32xx/bsps/ea3250/lib/libea3250gnu.a
/home/tech/CodeSourcery/software/lpc/lib/liblpcarm926ej-sgnu.a -lgcc -lc -lg
-lm -liberty -lstdc++ -lsupc++  -Wl,--end-group  -Xlinker -Map -Xlinker \
    timer.map -Xlinker -T   ../linker/ldscript_ram_gnu.ld   \
    -o timer.elf

After investigations and tests, the problem concerns libiberty library, that is
installed in the toolchain of CodeSourcery only as static library and not
shared.

Trying to find the library in the host, the result is the following:

$ find / -name *libiberty* -print

/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/sysroot/lib/libiberty.a
/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/sysroot/vfp/lib/libiberty.a
/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/lib/libiberty.a
/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/lib/vfp/libiberty.a
/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/lib/libiberty.a

[Bug other/46104] Linker error "cannot find -liberty"

[mmitchel at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46104

Mark Mitchell <mmitchel at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |mmitchel at gcc dot gnu.org
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #1 from Mark Mitchell <mmitchel at gcc dot gnu.org> 2010-10-21 21:30:39 UTC ---
This is a packaging question about CodeSourcery's products; it has no relevance
to FSF GCC.