Bug 870691

Summary:	sys-devel/binutils-2.39-r2 fails to install symlink
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Helmut Jarausch <jarausch>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	ionen, jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Helmut Jarausch 2022-09-17 12:05:55 UTC

On my system, binutils cannot be accessed

I had to
cd /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/
ln -s binutils-bin/2.39 bin


to fix my system.

All builds fail with  "gcc cannot create executables"

Unless one finds this fix above a Gentoo system is heavily broken.

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2022-09-17 12:12:05 UTC

There's going to be something way more to this. It's happened to nobody else and it works fine for me.

What happens when you use binutils-config?

Comment 2 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev

2022-09-17 12:35:01 UTC

Do remove the symlink before trying binutils-config, that's supposed to be a normal directory /in/ which binutils-config will create symlinks.

If you use it as-is it'll try create symlinks over your real binaries (but thankfully fail to).

Comment 3 Helmut Jarausch 2022-09-17 13:39:28 UTC

Many thanks for your quick help.
The question is why binutils-config hasn't been run by emerge.
Or did I miss some NEWS that I had to run it myself?

Anyway, having run binutils-config fixes the problem,
Helmut