m4 Configure fails with "C compiler cannot create executables" about poky-container HOT 2 CLOSED

Further experimentation:
given hello.c

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    printf("hello\n");
    return 0;
}

and trying to compile it with gcc hello.c, I get:

as: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbfd-2.26.1-system.so: invalid ELF header

and looking at the lib:
od /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbfd-2.26.1-system.so | more, the first few lines are

0000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000
*
1670000 000000 040400 040526 046521 140611 104511 044310 150611
1670020 151061 024750 176247 044377 142203 102460 072300 044501

What am I seeing?

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I just tried compiling your sample program using

docker run -it --rm crops/poky

It compiles and runs fine. I'm not sure what's going on in your system, perhaps the image got corrupted somehow? You could try deleting the crops/poky image and downloading it again.

Without more information, and considering I can't reproduce the problem, I'm going to close this for now.

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