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libiberty

  • libiberty is not needed because it acts like a libc and we already have one..

  • It also does not support shared libraries at all, and can only be 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

  • You can’t disable libiberty from binutils because gcc needs it:

    • alpine (for cross/system enables libiberty)
    • clear (manual install, copy to target dir)
    • dragora
    • t2
    • void (in a separate binutils-devel package)

  • Sabotage actually disables it using this: https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage/blob/master/KEEP/libibertyfix

  • Sabotage libiberty fix is intended for older versions of gnu packages: https://github.com/sabotage-linux/sabotage/commit/98e5fc3ce6e7946792284ec5a937959b5ffbd0c2#commitcomment-73101387