which file in linux machine represent the gcc standard c library?

Question

Many places I read that libc.a is the gcc standard c library. I could not find it on my system.

My system (fedora 17 - linux on intel 32 chip) has latest gcc and following files I could find on the disk in /usr/lib:

1. libc.so (238 bytes)
2. libc-2.15.so (2 MB)
3. libc_nonshared.a (20.7 kB)

I checked by using -v -wl,--verbose option that these are the files linker uses for linking automatically. but there is no such file as libc.a

Is libc.a missing on my system?

Answer 1

It was missing on my system since glibc-static was not installed. Now I've installed it and I can see libc.a in /usr/lib.