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> 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.
The ELF utilities require ld.so.1.7.4-1.deb, which you can find
in ftp.debian.org/debian/binary/base.
Ray
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