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Re: gcc-4.8.2-1: /bin/gcc fails


On 2013-11-02 04:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Nov  1 23:23, David Rothenberger wrote:
With gcc-4.8.2-1, the following fails:

% touch /tmp/t.c
% /bin/gcc -c /tmp/t.c
gcc: error: spawn: No such file or directory

Curious, are you seeing real-life references to /bin/gcc? Because that wouldn't be portable anyway.

I did try this on Fedora (recent version of which use /bin => /usr/bin and /lib => /usr/lib symlinks) and this worked fine. AFAICS, the difference there is that /usr/bin is the "real" directory and /bin is just a symlink, where the reverse is true on Cygwin and a mount is used instead of a symlink.

Uh oh.  That's bad.  Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to switch
libexecdir from /usr/lib to /usr/libexec?  It breaks applications
using relative paths to search other application components when
run from /bin.

AFAIK GCC is unique in this regard; relocatibility code is uncommon, and most other uses of libexecdir definitely use absolute paths.

Either we revert libexecdir to /usr/lib, or we will need to add an
automount point /libexec -> /usr/libexec as for /bin and /lib.

What if another program references its datadir as ../share/foo? (I'm pretty sure it does happen, although GCC doesn't, FWIW.) Are you going to make an automount point for that as well? (Didn't think so.) Relocatibility simply isn't portable to a /bin == /usr/bin scenarios, although use of a symlink instead of a mount might mitigate that.

So, while I'm not convinced that this is a huge issue overall, if "don't do that" isn't good enough, the easiest workaround is to configure GCC with --libexecdir=/usr/lib.


Yaakov


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