Greetings fellow monks. I'm having difficulties installing Math::GMP on a Solaris 8 box.

The sysadmin has installed Perl 5.8.3, and it looks to be a 32-bit version. I have built libgmp as 32-bit (using ABI=32), and installed that in /usr/local. Then I did 'make' on the Math::GMP module, and that went okay. But when I do 'make test' it fails, saying that DynaLoader.pm can't find libgcc_s.so.1 (line 229).

I'm stumped... libgcc_s.so.1 is in /usr/local/lib and is 32-bit. Any clues as to what I'm doing wrong?

BTW, I am going through this particular mode of torture because I need to enable Net::SSH::Perl on this box.

Ever grateful... PCS

In reply to Struggling with Math::GMP on Solaris 8 by webengr

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