Collect2: cannot find ld

[sam159]

Hey.
I have a problem with compiling anything, ie "int main(void) { return 0; }" will give

$ gcc -o test test.c
collect2: cannot find 'ld'

ld is there and working (as far as i can tell)

$ whereis ld
ld: /usr/bin/ld /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz
$ ld
ld: no input files

Im running a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04.1 on a Acer Travelmate TE351 laptop and I cant compile anything

Help?

[smolloy]

Hmmmm...... Have you installed build-essentials?

sudo apt-get install build-essentials

It looks like you have, since you have gcc and ld, but maybe there's something else missing.

*scratches head*

[sam159]

build-essentials is installed...

[smolloy]

From this link

There's a bug in some versions of gcc that if "." is in your path, collect2
will ignore $PATH when looking for ld because the FSF thinks it knows better
than you do in that case.

Could that be it?

[sam159]

$ echo $PATH
/home/sam/bin:/home/sam/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

so *should* be fine...

[sam159]

Ok, its working now, turns out that the dropbear ssh server was the trouble, so im now running openssh-server and collect2 works fine.
How strange....

[smolloy]

So you've logged on to your server and are trying to compile stuff, but it doesn't work when the server is running dropbear?

Or you're trying to compile this while sitting (locally) at the ssh server?

[sam159]

I was using it over ssh, went to use it directly and compiling worked.
didn't work when connected through dropbear.

[smolloy]

Weird. Dropbear musn't be passing some critical information that openssh does.

Glad you got it sorted