Solaris 8 and libm.so.2

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2009 Mar 17, at 10:36, Christian Maeder wrote:
> Ralph Crawford wrote:
>> ln -s /usr/lib/libm.so.1 $BOS_ROOT/lib/libm.so.2
>
> You need an actual libm.so.2 library that contains the missing  
> symbols.
> To this library you set a link libm.so in a directory that is in the
> front of your LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so that libm.so.2 instead of libm.so. 
> 1 is
> found via libm.so.


It's a bit more complex than that:  if you have the appropriate  
service contract you can request the C9X patch cluster, otherwise you  
can't get libm.so.2 at all, as far as I can determine.  I came up with  
an ugly hack to work around it, but would prefer to find a better  
solution.

-- 
brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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