First of, "error opening libc.a" message looks highly unusual. It's not the
way ld typically complains about a missing library or wrong architecture.
More likely, here it is rather some gcc-internal lib.a to be deployed in
some special way, but was missing.
I would try two things:
1) Re-iterate the failing conftest manually, appending -v option to show
what underlying ld command is being executed
2) Search for libc.a in the gcc build tree on another server, where the
build was successful.
Good luck,
- Dmitry.
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 02:32 Jost, Gabriele (ARC-TNC)[Supersmith] via gcc <
gcc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have successfully installed gcc 8.1 on one system. I had to build the
> accelerator on the front end, because the compute nodes did not have libc.a.
> The build process seems to require a libc.a.
> I am now struggling with trying to install it on a different system: Same
> concept, front end has libc.a, compute nodes don’t. But now I can’t even
> build the build the accelerator compiler, because of of the missing libc.a.
> But it lives in /usr/lib64, just like on the other system. Would you have
> any advise how I can get around this? Thanks in advance,
> Gabriele
>
>
> configure:3016: /nobackup/gcc_nvptx/gcc/build-accel/./gcc/xgcc
> -B/nobackup//gcc_nvptx/gcc/build-accel/./gcc/
> -B/nobackup/gcc-8.1.0-install/nvptx-none/bin/
> -B/nobackup/gcc-8.1.0-install/nvptx-none/lib/ -isystem
> /nobackup/gcc-8.1.0-install/nvptx-none/include -isystem
> /nobackup/gcc-8.1.0-install/nvptx-none/sys-include -g -O2 conftest.c
> -lc >&5
> error opening libc.a
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure:3020: $? = 1
> configure:3057: result:
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h */
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME "package-unused"
> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "libbacktrace"
> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "version-unused"
> | #define PACKAGE_STRING "package-unused version-unused"
> | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
> | #define PACKAGE_URL ""
> | /* end confdefs.h. */
> |
> | int
> | main ()
> | {
> |
> | ;
> | return 0;
> | }
>
>
>
