rustc produces error: linking with `cc` failed: exit code: 1

[okv]

After fresh install of rustc 0.13.0-nightly (b87619e27 2014-11-02 23:27:10 +0000) on ubuntu 14.04 64 bit using rustup.sh i got

error: linking with `cc` failed: exit code: 1
note: cc '-m64' '-L' '/usr/local/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib' '-o' 'regexp' 'regexp.o' '-Wl,--whole-archive' '-lmorestack' '-Wl,--no-whole-archive' '-nodefaultlibs' '-fno-lto' '-Wl,--gc-sections' '-pie' '-Wl,--as-needed' '/usr/local/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libnative-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libsync-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustrt-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librand-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcollections-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libunicode-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liballoc-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liblibc-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '/usr/local/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcore-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '-L' '/media/oleg/d1f39cd5-8da1-4386-9f5e-9edb3bd35c38/repository/bitbucket/log-parser/bench/rust/.rust' '-L' '/media/oleg/d1f39cd5-8da1-4386-9f5e-9edb3bd35c38/repository/bitbucket/log-parser/bench/rust' '-Wl,--whole-archive' '-Wl,-Bstatic' '-Wl,--no-whole-archive' '-Wl,-Bdynamic' '-ldl' '-lpthread' '-lgcc_s' '-lpthread' '-lc' '-lm' '-lcompiler-rt'
note: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find Scrt1.o: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find crtn.o: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

error: aborting due to previous error

installation of libc-dev solved the problem

[steveklabnik]

Yes, you need to have the development headers installed.

[originalhat]

Also Linux, verified that libc-dev installation resolved the problem.

[hjc]

Updating gcc from 4:4.9 to 4:5.3 fixed this for me. Also Linux, but libc-dev was up to date.