All, I'm trying to install gawk 3.1.16 from sunfreeware on Solaris 10/
SPARC.
Surprisingly, the site fails to mention pkg dependencies.
When I try to run gawk, I first got a ld fatal error about missing
libm.so.2. I googled around and patched it up by creating a soft link
to libm.so.1
Now it's complaining about missing libc.so.1.
Does anyone know what the dependencies are?
Not sure if this question should go into the awk list  or the solaris
list so trying here first.
Thanks in advance.
Sashi

On 2008-02-22, Sashi <smalladi@gmail.com> wrote:
> All, I'm trying to install gawk 3.1.16 from sunfreeware on Solaris 10/
> SPARC.
> Surprisingly, the site fails to mention pkg dependencies.

The package itself contains its dependencies.  If you don't have
required packages, the package install should error, list the missing 
packages, and ask you if you really want to install.

> When I try to run gawk, I first got a ld fatal error about missing
> libm.so.2. I googled around and patched it up by creating a soft link
> to libm.so.1

/lib/libm.so.1 and /lib/libm.so.2 both belong to package SUNWlibmsr.
If you have one, you should have the other.  It sounds like your
install of SUNWlibmsr is damaged.

> Now it's complaining about missing libc.so.1.
> Does anyone know what the dependencies are?
> Not sure if this question should go into the awk list  or the solaris
> list so trying here first.
> Thanks in advance.
> Sashi

Your install sounds horribly corrupted.  libc.so.1 is the C library;
I don't understand how your basic system commands are working without
it.  Most likely, you need to re-install Solaris.  


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             Christopher Mattern

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