Why boken symlinks to libquadmath.a libmudflap.a and so on in RHEL ?

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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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