Linking a C program directly with ld fails with undefined reference to `__libc_csu_fini`

Question

I\'m trying to compile a C program under Linux. However, out of curiosity, I\'m trying to execute some steps by hand: I use:

• the gcc frontend to produce assemb

Answer 1

This is how I fixed it on ubuntu 11.10:

apt-get remove libc-dev

Say yes to remove all the packages but copy the list to reinstall after.

apt-get install libc-dev