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Re: compile libstdc++ 2.7.2?
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at LS5 dot informatik dot uni-dortmund dot de>
- Subject: Re: compile libstdc++ 2.7.2?
- From: "Matthias Urlichs" <smurf at noris dot de>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 18:04:30 +0100
- Cc: "Frederick V. Heitkamp" <heitkamp at ibm dot net>, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- References: <199812171225.MAA67200@out4.ibm.net> <vyzpv9jx76l.fsf@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Hi,
Andreas Schwab:
> "Frederick V. Heitkamp" <heitkamp@ibm.net> writes:
>
> |> I remember reading somewhere that it's not possible to compile
> |> the 2.7.2 libs with newer gcc/egcs. Has there been a patch?
>
> No. What's wrong with using the supplied libstdc++ 2.8?
Netscape (and others) are explicitly linked against libstdc++ 2.7.
libstdc++ 2.7 contains old parts of libio which conflict with glibc 2.1.
We therefore need a way to recompile libstdc++ 2.7 so that old programs
continue to work. The only other alternative, as far as I can tell, is to
force everybody to recompile their program with libstdc++ 2.8 before we can
upgrade glibc to 2.1. This is a Bad Thing.
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