klibc - Jun 2012 - Bug#676569: gcc-4.7: -nostdlib broken, multiarch library path always added

Package: gcc-4.7
Version: 4.7.0-12
Severity: serious
Justification: breaks unrelated software

The following scenario is broken: I would expect the link to fail.
This is a carefully nailed-down testcase to figure out that the
fault is with gcc not binutils.

tg at zigo:~ $ echo 'int login_tty(int); void _exit(int); void _start() {
_exit(login_tty(0)); }' >test.c
tg at zigo:~ $ rm -f test.out; gcc -nostdlib -lutil -o test.out test.c; ls -l
test.out
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tg tg 3712 Jun  7 20:09 test.out

Reason behind this is that GNU autoconf generated configure scripts
(and other things like that) use such tests to check whether to add
libraries providing certain functionality to the build. Now if klibc
or dietlibc are used, you don't want to have libraries linked against
eglibc added to the build, as that will eventually fail. Figured this
out while trying to see whether jupp can be built with those libcs.

tg at zigo:~ $ gcc -nostdlib -lutil -o test.out test.c -v 2>&1 | tail -1
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/collect2 --sysroot=/ --build-id
--no-add-needed --eh-frame-hdr -m elf_x86_64 --hash-style=both -dynamic-linker
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -o test.out -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7
-L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu
-L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/../../../../lib -L/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
-L/lib/../lib -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -L/usr/lib/../lib
-L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/../../.. -lutil /tmp/ccjpTrCm.o
tg at zigo:~ $ $(gcc -nostdlib -lutil -o test.out test.c -v -save-temps
2>&1 | tail -1) -t
/usr/bin/ld.bfd.real: mode elf_x86_64
-lutil (/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so)
test.o

Here ^ we see "nicely" how gcc is the culprit adding -L directives,
and that ld uses them at library resolution time.

tg at zigo:~ $ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.7.real
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.7.0-12'
--with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.7/README.Bugs
--enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr
--program-suffix=-4.7 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id
--with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext
--enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.7
--libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object
--enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic
--enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu
--target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.7.0 (Debian 4.7.0-12)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unreleased
  APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable'), (500,
'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
m68k

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/mksh

Versions of packages gcc-4.7 depends on:
ii  binutils      2.22-6.1
ii  cpp-4.7       4.7.0-12
ii  gcc-4.7-base  4.7.0-12
ii  libc6         2.13-33
ii  libgcc1       1:4.7.0-12
ii  libgmp10      2:5.0.5+dfsg-2
ii  libgomp1      4.7.0-12
ii  libitm1       4.7.0-12
ii  libmpc2       0.9-4
ii  libmpfr4      3.1.0-5
ii  libquadmath0  4.7.0-12
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.7.dfsg-11

Versions of packages gcc-4.7 recommends:
ii  libc6-dev  2.13-33

Versions of packages gcc-4.7 suggests:
pn  binutils-gold        <none>
pn  gcc-4.7-doc          <none>
pn  gcc-4.7-locales      <none>
pn  gcc-4.7-multilib     <none>
pn  libgcc1-dbg          <none>
pn  libgomp1-dbg         <none>
pn  libitm1-dbg          <none>
pn  libmudflap0-4.7-dev  <none>
pn  libmudflap0-dbg      <none>
pn  libquadmath0-dbg     <none>

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