Friday, December 29, 2006

lost.... libgcc

What a quest.... the hunt for libgcc on solaris 10. The problem was to find if Solaris 10 ships with libgcc. Now anyone else would know that on top of their head, but not me! I have to make everything a challenge.
So I found the package listing for Solaris 10 sparc and x86 at
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-6399/6n8droaea?a=view Sparc
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-6399/6n8droaec?a=view x86.


that showed that gccruntime was included in the standard packages. However, that wasnt enough. I had to confirm that libgcc was part of the gccruntime. So I tried

pkginfo SUNWgccruntime


with no luck. Then my coworker suggested to get the vmware image and do a pkgadd or pkgrm and find out. So I could get around that when my system permitted (faced lot more problems before I could get the vmware running). Once I had the vmware I did a pkgrm SUNWgccruntime and it showed removing libgcc.so.

Which I believe confirms that libgcc is part of gcc runtime files.

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