Why boken symlinks to libquadmath.a libmudflap.a and so on in RHEL ?
Issue
- There are some broken symlinks in RHEL 7
# ll /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.2/32/
total 3576
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1960 Aug 31 2016 crtbegin.o
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2440 Aug 31 2016 crtbeginS.o
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2256 Aug 31 2016 crtbeginT.o
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 948 Aug 31 2016 crtend.o
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 948 Aug 31 2016 crtendS.o
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4804 Aug 31 2016 crtfastmath.o
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2548 Aug 31 2016 crtprec32.o
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2556 Aug 31 2016 crtprec64.o
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2548 Aug 31 2016 crtprec80.o
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 42 Jul 30 21:58 libasan.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.5/libasan.a
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5276 Aug 31 2016 libasan_preinit.o
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 36 Aug 31 2016 libasan.so
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 44 Jul 30 21:58 libatomic.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.5/libatomic.a
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 38 Aug 31 2016 libatomic.so
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3270940 Aug 31 2016 libgcc.a
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 43954 Aug 31 2016 libgcc_eh.a
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 18 Jul 30 21:58 libgcc_s.so -> /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 41544 Aug 31 2016 libgcov.a
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 222082 Aug 31 2016 libgomp.a
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 28 Jul 30 21:58 libgomp.so -> ../../../../libgomp.so.1.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 Jul 30 21:58 libitm.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.5/libitm.a
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 35 Aug 31 2016 libitm.so
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 45 Jul 30 21:58 libmudflap.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.5/libmudflap.a
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 39 Aug 31 2016 libmudflap.so
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 47 Jul 30 21:58 libmudflapth.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.5/libmudflapth.a
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 41 Aug 31 2016 libmudflapth.so
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 46 Jul 30 21:58 libquadmath.a -> ../../../i686-redhat-linux/4.8.5/libquadmath.a
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 40 Aug 31 2016 libquadmath.so
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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