This is serious bug and is really counter-productive in 21 century when downloading some portable archive and cannot launch software, Very troublesome. This way is one way to scare people back to Windows. affects 20.10 and 21.04 too, please raise voice people.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to shared-mime-info in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1639531 Title: GCC compiles programs to shared object instead of executable, preventing GUI file managers from executing programs Status in gcc-defaults: Unknown Status in shared-mime-info: Unknown Status in shared-mime-info package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Release of Ubuntu being used ============================ Description: Ubuntu 16.10 Release: 16.10 Version of the package being used ================================= gcc: Installed: 4:6.1.1-1ubuntu2 Candidate: 4:6.1.1-1ubuntu2 Version table: *** 4:6.1.1-1ubuntu2 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status What was expected ================= Programs compiled using `gcc -o program program.c` should be runnable by double-clicking them from a GUI file manager. Compiling a simple program (`void main() { }`) using Xubuntu 16.04's current version of `gcc` (`gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.2)`) produces the following output from `/usr/bin/file program`: program: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=signature_here, not stripped This is correct behavior, allowing the executables to run from Nautilus and Thunar. What happened instead ===================== Programs compiled using `gcc -o program program.c` are not runnable by double-clicking them from a GUI file manager, even though they are runnable from the terminal. Compiling a simple program (`void main() { }`) using the current version of `gcc` (`6.2.0 20161005 (Ubuntu 6.2.0-5ubuntu12)`) produces the following output from `/usr/bin/file program`: program: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=signature_here, not stripped The program is also identified as a "shared library" instead of an "executable" in Thunar, causing it to not be runnable from the GUI. Others are unable to run such programs from Nautilus. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-defaults/+bug/1639531/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
