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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is libgcc_s.so.1?
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:20:12
Message-Id: CA+czFiBeAVhRejJTs2Vk6eKVT8ko7cuknk+f_h1PUvsgJd-Aqw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What is libgcc_s.so.1? by Grant
1 On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
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3 [snip]
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6 > Does this basically mean I must install gcc in order to have a working
7 > system? Jude doesn't install gcc but he doesn't know why I'm getting that
8 > error. I thought gcc was only necessary for compiling.
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10 Virtually all compilers also have a 'runtime' which is a library of
11 routines common to the program executables they produce. GCC's is
12 called libgcc.
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15 :wq