Bug#1167: ELF development packages fail or have missing dependencies
Package: elf-gcc
Version: 2.7.0-1
chiark:~/junk> gcc-elf -Wall -O3 t.cc
bash: /usr/bin/gcc-elf: No such file or directory
chiark:~/junk> strace /usr/bin/gcc-elf
strace: exec: No such file or directory
chiark:~/junk> cat /proc/version
Linux version 1.2.10 (ian@chiark) (gcc version 2.6.3) #1 Sat Jul 15 13:28:33 BST 1995
chiark:~/junk> grep ELF /usr/src/linux-1.2.10/.config
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
chiark:~/junk> dpkg -l '*elf*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required
||/ Name Version Rev Description
+++-============-=========-====-===============================================
ii elf-binutils 2.5.2l.17 1 The GNU assembler and binary utilities (ELF).
ii elf-gcc 2.7.0 1 The GNU compiler (ELF).
ii elf-libc 5.0.9 1 The Linux C library version 5 (ELF).
chiark:~/junk>
Reading /usr/bin/gcc-elf in less I see the string `/lib/ld-linux.so'
very close to the beginning. /lib/ld-linux.so does not exist on my
system.
Ian.
PS: "dpkg -l '*elf*'" will only work with the new C dpkg.
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