On many(all?) Debian derivatives, when building the upstream glibc, `make check` has 100+ failures due to `libgcc_s.so.1 must be installed for pthread_cancel to work` I filed https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28177 . An upstream maintainer told me that: So hope a Debian developer can upstream the path so that a glibc contributor doesn't need to `cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 $prefix/bfd/lib/` to make `make check` happy.