"John Z. Bohach" <jzb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm trying to build a tiny test program using an alternate toolchain > built purely from source (LFS ch. 5 method), but collect2 says that ld > can't find a lib. that _does_ exist under /usr/lib, but /usr/lib is not > even attempted as part of the search, even though /usr/lib _is_ part of > the library search path dumped by "gcc -print-search-dirs". > Bizarre...what am I misunderstanding? That certainly seems peculiar and may indicate a bug. Try running gcc with the -v option to set the list of -L options which gcc passes to collect2. Those options should all be passed on to the linker. You can also run gcc with the option -Wl,-debug to see debugging information from collect2. Ian
