libstdc++.so.x issue

[Phil Edwards]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 04:30:16PM -0500, Shen Wu wrote:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> Thank you very much for you information. It clarifies the number of my
> doubts in respect of the gcc compatibility.  As you pointed out we do need
> to rebuild our SDK for each of new GCC if it changes ABI i.e. with new
> libstdc++.so.x.

Or do what many vendors do and simply don't use a newer version of GCC.

> I have not seen the Linux venders starting put all the
> versions of libstdc++.so.x in the Linux distributions yet. For instance
> in Redhat 8.0, we only have libstdc++.so.5 and do not have previous versions.

The different versions are usually in different packages.


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