[yocto] libgcc_s not present in Yocto image

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2016-02-05 at 15:50 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> 
> On 5 February 2016 at 15:24, Nathan Sowatskey <nathan at nathan.to>
> wrote:
> > I suspect that my test program, which was supplied to me as a .deb
> > package, was compiled on Ubuntu, and so links to libgcc_s.so.1. I
> > can’t see any obvious way to get libgcc_s.so.1 on Yocto. I already
> > have:
> > 
> libgcc contains /lib/libgcc_s.so.1, so it should be installed in your
> image already:
> 
> How are you determining that it isn't in your image, and that your
> application doesn't work?

Note that the build system will only install libraries that are
actually used. It nothing needs libgcc_s, it won't get installed.

There is a lot less than you'd think which actually links against it so
it is quite possible its not in your image since nothing needed it.

Cheers,

Richard