[Buildroot] Fedora 16: Cannot find -lc

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 05/01/12 08:35, Alexander Broekhuis wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to use buildroot on a Fedora 16 installation and run into
> the following error:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> The last make command before the error:
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/alexander/Development/buildroot/output/build/host-module-init-tools-3.15/build'
> /usr/lib/ccache/gcc  -O2
> -I/home/alexander/Development/buildroot/output/host/include
> -I/home/alexander/Development/buildroot/output/host/usr/include -Wunused
> -Wall -static -L/home/alexander/Development/buildroot/output/host/lib
> -L/home/alexander/Development/buildroot/output/host/usr/lib
> -Wl,-rpath,/home/alexander/Development/buildroot/output/host/usr/lib -o
> insmod.static insmod.o libmodtools.a

  I guess you need /usr/lib/libc.a installed on your build system.  I 
think it's in the glibc-static package on Fedora.

  If that makes the difference, it definitely should be in the 
documentation.  (On Debian derivatives, libc.a is a dependency of the 
compiler so it will be there.)

  Regards,
  Arnout


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