topic Re: Error message when attempting to test gcc in Operating System - HP-UX

Error message when attempting to test gcc

mr_s29 — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:29:14 GMT

Hi,

I added gcc 2.95.3 to an HP-UX 10.20 32-bit machine ( I do realize that HP-UX 10.20 is old but we need to keep this system because of some clients). I created a hello.c test file in my /test directory. I then attempted to test the gcc with the following command: gcc /test/hello.c -o /test/hello.exe

The error message below was output:

/usr/ccs/bin/ld: Can't find library for -lgcc

I am not sure how to resolve this issue. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Re: Error message when attempting to test gcc

Dennis Handly — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:29:36 GMT

>I am not sure how to resolve this issue.

When was the last time this worked? It seems you are missing libgcc.*.

Re: Error message when attempting to test gcc

mr_s29 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:34:48 GMT

Hi Dennis

Thanks for replying.

To answer your question, I just installed the both the OS and gcc on this machine a few weeks ago so gcc has never worked on this machine before.

I do have libgcc.a under /usr/pa20_32/lib. I tried adding both /usr/pa20_32/lib and /usr/pa20_32/lib/libgcc.a to /etc/PATH. I then tried testing gcc again but got the same error.

Thanks.

Re: Error message when attempting to test gcc

mr_s29 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:30:37 GMT

Hi Dennis,

I was able to solve this issue by creating the following symbolic link:

ln -s /usr/pa20_32/lib/libgcc.a /usr/lib/libgcc.a

Thanks for the advice on missing the libgcc.

Re: Error message when attempting to test gcc

Dennis Handly — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:53:01 GMT

>/etc/PATH

This contains paths to binaries, not libs. ld(1) uses LPATH for that. Or add -L path on the link line.

>by creating the following symbolic link: ln -s /usr/pa20_32/lib/libgcc.a

That's strange, I thought /usr/pa20_32/lib/ would only be for HP products and for performance, not gcc.