Notes about Solaris 9 Packages

Note first, that Solaris 9 now includes (depending on the level of installation you do) many freeware programs like perl, gzip, etc. Also, the Companion CD has a lot of freeware that installs in /opt. You might want to try to use these versions before you use sunfreeware.com packages.

The Solaris 9 for SPARC packages on sunfreeware.com were compiled with gcc-3.1 using the assembler (as) and loader (ld) programs in /usr/ccs/bin. Because of this, some of the executables will look for libraries like libgcc_s.so and libstdc++.so in /usr/local/lib. If you install the gcc-3.1 packages, these files will go into /usr/local/lib automatically. But, if you do not want to install gcc-3.1, but do want to run programs that need these libraries, then you can install the libgcc-3.1 package instead of gcc-3.1.

If you run ldd on an executable, it will show the libraries it expects to find. For example, the minizip executable gives

ldd minigzip 


minigzip:
        libz.so =>       /usr/local/lib/libz.so
        libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
        libgcc_s.so.1 =>         /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
        /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/lib/libc_psr.so.1

and we see that the libz.so and libgcc_so.so.1 libraries need to be in /usr/local/lib from the zlib and libgcc (or gcc) packages.

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