ld.so.1: cc: fatal: libpicl.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory – that’s the latest problem we encountered in installing Ruby on Rails… (well, not actually on Ruby but in some dependencies)…

Last time we did the GlassFish webstack installation (just to get RoR working) because the Ruby in Coolstack was an old version Ruby 1.8.6 something.

But as far as Ruby on Rails installation is concern, the Optimized Open Source Software Stack (Cool Stack) is working properly.. As well as the Glassfish installation.. The problem we’re getting is for some Gems that we’re trying to install (oracle gems and hobo and others)…

For this one, we’re trying to install the Oracle gem thing.. and it requires to compile something that needs CC.. we ended up installing Sun Studio 12.. (but I still believe gcc is a perfect alternative for cc).

Anyway, searching for “ld.so.1: cc: fatal: libpicl.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory” will give you unrelated websites (well, until this one gets indexed that is)..

As of this writing it only has 4 results:

What I did is i downloaded a Sun patch that contains the file and placed in my server same location:

Take this patch for example:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-108528-29-1

libpicl.so.1 installs in /usr/lib/abi/abi_libpicl.so.1 , /usr/lib/abi/sparcv9/abi_libpicl.so.1, /usr/lib/libpicl.so.1

and others