Problems with gcc 3.2

[Ricardo Anguiano]

Jeff Holle <jeff.holle@verizon.net> writes:

> I've just installed gcc 3.2 on my linux system (Mandrake 8.2).
> Typing "gcc -v" from command line reports:
> 
>     Configured with: ./configure
>     Thread model: posix
>     gcc version 3.2
> 
> In compiling and running a simple boost.python extension module (which
> worked with gcc 2.96.0), I get:
> 
>      $python hello.py
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File "hello.py", line 1, in ?
>         import HELLO
>     ImportError: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such
>     file or directory
> 
> This appears to be because libstdc++.so.5 is installed in
> /usr/local/lib instead of /usr/lib (where the 2.96.0 shared libraries
> seem to be).
> 
> What do I have to do to my environment to fix this?
> 
> Note:
> I tried to define LD_LIBRARY_PATH (which was not previously defined)
> to "/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/lib", to no affect.

That's the right environment variable, but I don't know why it isn't
working.  You can try either:

        0) printing the value of LD_LIBRARY_PATH from within the
           python script to make sure it is defined and has the right
           value.
        1) compiling the module statically (-static).
        2) copying libstdc++.so.5 into /usr/lib

HTH,
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Ricardo Anguiano
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