collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

[Johan Engelen]

On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 at 20:41:42 UTC, Jack wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 at 20:25:24 UTC, Jack wrote:
>> I just installed ldc on open suse[1] but when I went to 
>> compile I get this error:
>>
>>>collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'
>>>compilation terminated.
>>>Error: /usr/bin/cc failed with status: 1
>>
>> the command:
>>>whereis ld
>>
>> return
>>
>>>ld: /usr/bin/ld /usr/bin/ld.bfd /usr/share/man/man1/ld.1.gz
>>>>/usr/share/info/ld.info.gz
>>
>> So at least the terminal can find it in the PATH variable. How 
>> can I fix this for ldc?
>>
>> [1]: with this script curl -fsS https://dlang.org/install.sh | 
>> bash -s ldc
>
> fixed with
>
> sudo zypper install binutils-gold
>
> for some reason reinstall binutils didn't work but install 
> binutils-gold put ld somewhere where ldc2 could find

If you compile with `-v`, you'll see that LDC calls `cc` for 
linking, and passes -fuse-ld=gold to cc on Linux, forcing the use 
of ld.gold. You can prevent this by passing `-linker=` (empty) to 
LDC, such that the default linker is used by `cc`.

cheers,
   Johan