libiberty

• libiberty is not needed as it acts like another libc
• Does not support shared libraries, and is only available as libiberty.a which many distros remove post build or post install. I think it’s not installed by default nowadays, because there’s a certain switch —enable-install-libiberty that installs it
• Software that needs libiberty will provide it on their own to prevent version changes
• gcc requires libiberty from binutils:
  • alpine (for cross/system enables libiberty)
  • clear (manual install, copy to target dir)
  • dragora
  • t2
  • void (in a separate binutils-devel package)
• Sabotage disables libiberty, and has a fix for older gnu packages
• Sabotage libiberty fix is intended for older versions of gnu packages

Resources

• https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage/blob/master/KEEP/libibertyfix
• https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage/commit/98e5fc3ce6e7946792284ec5a937959b5ffbd0c2#commitcomment-73101387