Gentoo Problem Of The Week (#7)

Sun Jan 5 21:10:41 MSK 2014

To all who use ld.gold as default linker: Be aware that you have to switch back to ld.gold after binutils gets reinstalled! See also this bug.

problem: dev-utils/oprofile failed to build

  checking libiberty.h usability... yes
  checking libiberty.h presence... yes
  checking for libiberty.h... yes
  checking for cplus_demangle in -liberty... no
  configure: error: liberty library not found __solution__: sorry, I'm lazy to fix this, so here is a [bug](https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497156). The problem in `binutils` package actually: it won't install `libiberty.a`...

Some packages, sys-libs/db-4.8.30 for example, may fail to build w/ ld.gold as default linker, but one may temporary override it w/ -fuse-ld=bfd compiler option… I’ll tell about this and some more tricks later… ;-)