Building LFS - Error at 5.7: Need linker with .init_array/.fini_array support

Question

I am about to build my first Linux from scratch.... I've done everything exactly as it's written in the book - at least i think i did.

Now, building the glibc results to the following problem:

checking for .preinit_array/.init_array/.fini_array support... no
configure: error: Need linker with .init_array/.fini_array support.

With this message, glibc-2.18/configure tool breaks up in the config.log it says at some point:

collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

I guess these errors are related.

I am running a 64-bit machine. some people with similar errors said, that this might be the cause of the error - but that should not be, right?

I hope that some of you can help me with this, or at least explain what's going on there.

I have the ld and the readelf in my /tools folder, why isn't it found?

Answer 1

I had the same configure: error: Need linker with .init_array/.fini_array support. error while building glibc on a x86_64 grsec linux box. In my case the perp was the CFLAGS environment variable (set in ~/local/share/config.site) and in particular the switch for position independent code, -fPic which was causing this problem. Its a more-or-less known bug.