Bug#452402: gcc-4.2: cannot generate sparc64 executables

["Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org>]

Package: gcc-4.2
Version: 4.2.2-3
Severity: normal

When I try to compile a 64 bit executable on sparc, I get errors
about missing a libgcc.a file for it:

$ cat > test.c <<EOF
int main() { return 0; }
EOF
$ gcc -Wall -W -m64 -c test.c
$ gcc -Wall -W -m64 test.o
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/sparc-linux-gnu/4.2.3/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/sparc-linux-gnu/4.2.3/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

A related problem seems to be, that
$ gcc -print-libgcc-file-name
and
$ gcc -m64 -print-libgcc-file-name
both report
/usr/lib/gcc/sparc-linux-gnu/4.2.3/libgcc.a

(Which I'm somewhat suspecting might be the cause for the klibc
segfaults, as that tries to build 64 bit binaries)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: sparc (sparc64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-sparc64-smp (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gcc-4.2 depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.18-1     The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  cpp-4.2                       4.2.2-3    The GNU C preprocessor
ii  gcc-4.2-base                  4.2.2-3    The GNU Compiler Collection (base 
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.2.2-3  GCC support library
ii  libgomp1                      4.2.2-3    GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library

Versions of packages gcc-4.2 recommends:
ii  libc6-dev                     2.6.1-6    GNU C Library: Development Librari

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