newbie: python 2.1 looking for libgcc_s.so.1 on SOL2.6?

[AJ]

I didn't build it.  I downloaded a pre-compiled package from a Solaris
freeware site.  That could be it, though.  I didn't know GCC changed their
libraries so much...

--AJ

"Skip Montanaro" <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message
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>
>     >> Trying to get the script at: http://ipcheck.sourceforge.net/ to run
>     >> on my Solaris 2.6 box.  I downloaded and installed the Python 2.1.x
>     >> pkg from sunfreeware.com (I trust those guys, I haven't had any
>     >> problems with their packages).
>
>     >> However, whenever I try to run the script I get the following
errors.
>     >> /usr/local/lib/python2.1 is in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  "gcc 2.95.2" is
>     >> installed as well as "binutils".
>
>     ...
>
>     >> ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No
>     >> such file or directory
>
> Sounds to me like you actually built Python using GCC 3.0.  (Try gcc -v.)
> If so, you will have to extend LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the directory
that
> contains libgcc_s.so.1 (I look in /usr/local/lib first).
>
> --
> Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)
>