Error loading Shared libraries

[Raghunandan M S <ramanch at yahoo dot com>]

Folks,

I've referred to the following FAQ but my problem
seems to by quite different given the fact that a i'm
a Linux newbie.

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/faq/index.html#2_6

I had a build env for some Linux apps with gcc version
2.96 (links with shared library libstdc++.so.3). The
build environment was upgraded and I now have gcc
3.2.3 compiler (links with shared library
libstdc++.so.5).

As expected my app fails when I run on a Linux Red Hat
box where libstdc++.so.3 is installed.

# myapp
./os_setup: error while loading shared libraries:
libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory

I need a solution where I can have a stable build
environment such that I should not recompile myapp on
any newer versions of Red Hat or Debian or SuSE or any
Linux distribution for that matter.

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I've tried the following options;

Option 1] Creating sym links (a dirty option); ln -s
/usr/lib/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so
libstdc++.so.5

This doesn't help me because there are other shared
lib dependencies ...

# myapp
./os_setup: error while loading shared libraries:
libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory

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Option 2]
I've tried statically linking libstdc++.a and
libgcc.a, which fails ..

relocation error: ./osisetup: symbol
_ZTVN10__cxxabiv117__class_type_infoE, version
GLIBCPP_3.2 not defined in file libstdc++.so.5 with
link time reference

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Option 3]
I'd hate to recompile and generate 'myapp' on all
Linux distributions. This would have to be my last
option.

Thanks for any tip.
- Raghu


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