Re: gcc -nostdlib -Wl,--script=xxx but "ld: this linker was not configured to use sysroots"

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Steffen,

> when linking without stdlib but a custom linker script, why does ld
> needs to know anything about a sysroot used to compile gcc?
>
> Is it just because gcc passed unneeded "--sysroot=..." option that
> leads to this error, although not needed in case of -nostdlib?

Possibly.  Please could you open a bug report for this using the 
bugzilla system:

  http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/

It will really help if you can include a small testcase to reproduce the 
problem, and if you mention the target architecture for whioch you are 
trying to create an executable.

Cheers
  Nick