Installing RubyGems 0.9.4 on Solaris 2.6

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone can assist here -

Have installed Ruby 1.8.6 on Solaris 2.6 (Sparc), and that seemed to install ok. I then went to install RubyGems 0.9.4 (as the good book suggests) and found that I encounter an error partway through the installation (executed 'ruby setup.rb' at the location of where I extracted the RubyGem tarfile).

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... install uninstall_command.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/ rubygems/commands install unpack_command.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ commands install update_command.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ commands <--- lib/rubygems/commands ---> lib/rubygems/digest mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/digest install digest_adapter.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/ digest install md5.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/digest install sha1.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/digest install sha2.rb /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/digest <--- lib/rubygems/digest <--- lib/rubygems <--- lib /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.6/thread.so: ld.so.1: ruby: fatal: libgcc_s.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory - /usr/ local/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.6/thread.so (LoadError)         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:5         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:85:in `require'         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:85         from /dsk1/rubygems-0.9.4/./post-install.rb:81:in `require'         from /dsk1/rubygems-0.9.4/./post-install.rb:81:in `install_sources'         from /dsk1/rubygems-0.9.4/./post-install.rb:116:in `run_hook'         from setup.rb:1526:in `exec_task_traverse'         from setup.rb:1342:in `exec_install'         from setup.rb:1000:in `exec_install'         from setup.rb:814:in `invoke'         from setup.rb:773:in `invoke'         from setup.rb:1578

Problem solved.