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After updating GCC, Clang can't find libstdc++ anymore – Debian

After updating GCC to a newer version,

$sudo apt-get install gcc-10

I cannot compile C++ with Clang anymore. What is a way to fix this?

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++

Ubuntu version:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

Trying to compile a basic helloworld program:

$ clang++ helloworld.cpp -v
clang version 10.0.0-4ubuntu1 
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7.5.0
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7.5.0
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8
Found candidate GCC installation: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9
Selected GCC installation: /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10
Candidate multilib: .;@m64
Selected multilib: .;@m64
 "/usr/lib/llvm-10/bin/clang" -cc1 -triple x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -emit-obj -mrelax-all -disable-free -disable-llvm-verifier -discard-value-names -main-file-name helloworld.cpp -mrelocation-model static -mthread-model posix -mframe-pointer=all -fmath-errno -fno-rounding-math -masm-verbose -mconstructor-aliases -munwind-tables -target-cpu x86-64 -dwarf-column-info -fno-split-dwarf-inlining -debugger-tuning=gdb -v -resource-dir /usr/lib/llvm-10/lib/clang/10.0.0 -internal-isystem /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/../../../../include/c++ -internal-isystem /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/../../../../include/c++/x86_64-linux-gnu -internal-isystem /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/../../../../include/c++/backward -internal-isystem /usr/local/include -internal-isystem /usr/lib/llvm-10/lib/clang/10.0.0/include -internal-externc-isystem /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu -internal-externc-isystem /include -internal-externc-isystem /usr/include -fdeprecated-macro -fdebug-compilation-dir /home/username/project.simplefem/tests/basic -ferror-limit 19 -fmessage-length 0 -fgnuc-version=4.2.1 -fobjc-runtime=gcc -fcxx-exceptions -fexceptions -fdiagnostics-show-option -fcolor-diagnostics -faddrsig -o /tmp/helloworld-315ed2.o -x c++ helloworld.cpp
clang -cc1 version 10.0.0 based upon LLVM 10.0.0 default target x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/../../../../include/c++/x86_64-linux-gnu"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/../../../../include/c++/backward"
ignoring nonexistent directory "/include"
#include "..." search starts here:
#include <...> search starts here:
 /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/../../../../include/c++
 /usr/local/include
 /usr/lib/llvm-10/lib/clang/10.0.0/include
 /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu
 /usr/include
End of search list.
helloworld.cpp:2:10: fatal error: 'iostream' file not found
#include <iostream>
         ^~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.

‘gcc’ itself seems to refer to the gcc-9 version nevertheless:

$gcc -v 
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/lto-wrapper
OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none:hsa
OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-9/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,brig,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++,gm2 --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-9 --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --with-target-system-zlib=auto --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-offload-targets=nvptx-none=/build/gcc-9-HskZEa/gcc-9-9.3.0/debian/tmp-nvptx/usr,hsa --without-cuda-driver --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 9.3.0 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04)
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  1. 0

    Please make sure that your highest version of g++ is same as your highest version of gcc.
    For example, you installed gcc-10, gcc-11, and g++-10 in your system, this error will occur. g++-11 can be installed to fix this problem.

    Here is my reference:
    https://askubuntu.com/questions/1211743/clang-doesnt-find-c-stdlib-on-my-ubuntu-18-04-but-it-does-on-a-brand-new-ins

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  2. 0

    I had this problem on Ubuntu 22.04.
    The gcc and g++ versions are both the same (11.3.0)

    I think the broken upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 was incomplete.

    The /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu directory contained a ’12’ directory.
    However most of the libraries are missing in this dir.

    I simply removed the 12 directory. Now clang++ picks ’11’
    and everything works correctly

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  3. 0

    On Ubuntu 20. At some point (probably after some updates) clang failed to find std libraries. Using -stdlib=libc++ what will use clang standard library instead of gcc, libstdc++. Actually compiled the whole llvm, because the distro package was quite old. Scripts is here.

    UPDATE
    Use LLVM repo to get binaries.

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