Question about versions of libstdc++

[Phil Edwards]

On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 04:52:18PM +0300, Yuval Kfir wrote:
> I'm confused by the multitude of versions of libstdc++ I find on my Red Hat 
> Linux installation, and the purpose of each one.

For Red Hat questions, you need to ask Red Hat.

> /usr/lib 113% ls -F libstdc++*
> libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.a     libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3@
> libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so*   libstdc++.so.2.7.2@
> libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.a    libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8*
> libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so*  libstdc++.so.2.8@
> libstdc++-libc6.1-1.a.2@          libstdc++.so.2.8.0*
> libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2@         libstdc++.so.2.9@
> libstdc++-libc6.2-2.a.3@          libstdc++.so.2.9.dummy*

Any of the version numbers that start with 2 are for the previous libstdc++.
It is unsupported by the FSF.  This list is for implementing version 3,
see http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/ .


Phil

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