Quick Fix to the Linker Error - ld: fatal: library -lgcc_s: not found

Symptom(s):

When building some of the open source applications like MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition with the GCC compiler, the linking step may fail with the fatal error message library -lgcc_s: not found despite the fact that the gcc_s library is available on the system and is in the linker search path -- for example, LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Solaris.

Quick Fix / Workaround:

1. Add the absolute path to the gcc_s library on the link line, OR

2. (Recommended) If the library's filename has any major and minor version numbers appended to it, simply create a soft link to the library in the same location without the major and minor version numbers in the target filename.

On a Solaris 10 system, by default, the gcc_s library might be available under /usr/sfw/lib (32-bit SPARC and x86 copy), /usr/sfw/lib/sparcv9 (64-bit SPARC copy) and /usr/sfw/lib/amd64 (64-bit x64 copy). If all you can find is the gcc_s library with the version number(s) in the filename like libgcc_s.so.1, simply run the command 'ln -s libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so' in the same directory where you found the libgcc_s.so.1.

Note:

Probably this particular error message may show up on any OS platform with any compiler, and the workaround mentioned in this post may work on all those failed cases. I cannot guarantee that, but I know for sure that it works on Solaris (both SPARC and x86/x64 versions).

Posted at 01:19AM Dec 17, 2008 by Giri Mandalika in Workaround  |  Comments[0]