Re: [eclipse-clp-users] Question regarding hardware architecture for ECLiPSe

From: Wit Jakuczun <wit.jakuczun_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:56:31 +0200
2008/7/2 Joachim Schimpf <jschimpf_at_users.sourceforge.net>:
> Wit Jakuczun wrote:
>> 2008/6/25 Joachim Schimpf (Independent Contractor) <jschimpf_at_cisco.com>:
>>> Wit Jakuczun wrote:
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>>    I have a question whether the following architecture
>>>> is supported by ECLiPSe:
>>>>
>>>> - Hardvare: 4 x 2-Core UltraSPARC T1, 1.2 GHz
>>>> - OS: Solaris 10
>>>> - Domain is working on 3 or 4 mainboards f25, each have 4 processors
>>>> DualCore and 16GB RAM.
>>>>
>>>> By supporting I under stand:
>>>> - existing binaries (there are binaries for Solaris 5)
>>> Don't get confused by Sun's numbering scheme:
>>> Solaris X = SunOS 5.X (at least for X >= 7)
>>>
>>> The existing sparc_sunos5 binaries are 32-bit Sparc binaries
>>> and have been compiled on SunOS 5.8, though 5.9 is also known
>>> to work.
>>>
>>> There is a good chance (having some confidence in Sun) that they
>>> will work (in 32-bit mode) on your 64-bit SunOS 5.10 machine.
>>>
>> My contractor made an attempt to run ECLiPSe under SunOS 5.10 (Sparc)
>> and got the following error:
>> ld.so.1: eclipse.exe: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No such file
>> or directory
>>
>> It seems that ECLiPSe needs GCC runtime libraries.
>
> I have just investigated the possibility of linking libgcc_s statically,
> in order to remove this dependency, but apparently this is not advisable
> because (a) the dynamic library is required for proper exception handling
> in a C++ context, and (b) the -static-libgcc option works only if using
> the gnu linker (which we don't).
>
I  believe that dynamic linking is good enough.

> So the clean way for you is to get libgcc_s.so.1, e.g. from sunfreeware.com
> ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/sparc/10/libgcc-3.4.6-sol10-sparc-local.gz
> If you can't/don't want to install it in the standard location, you can
> just put libgcc_s.so.1 to <eclipsedir>/lib/sparc_sunos5
>
Thank you very much for help!
I will let you know how we managed.

Best regards
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Received on Wed Jul 02 2008 - 04:56:35 CEST

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