Re: old libstdc++-libc6 library, ia32-libs?

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

"Michael F. Egglestone" <michael@estone.ca> writes:

> Hello,
>
> We have a very old 3rd party program that won't run properly without this
> file:
>
> libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
>
> It also requires some libraries from the ia32-libs package which works
> nicely,
> but this one libc6.2-2 is the only one missing.

This is only present in oldstable, where ia32-libs contains it too.

> Here's an output from the binary:
>
>  estone:/opt/Linux_miniDB# ldd -v atrtserv.linux
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf771e000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf76fa000)
>
>         libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => not found
>
>         libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf76d3000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf758c000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf771f000)
>
>         Version information:
>         ./atrtserv.linux:
>                 libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1.3) => /lib32/libc.so.6
>                 libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib32/libc.so.6
>                 libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib32/libc.so.6
> [snip]
>
> Any advice on how to make this program work on our Squeeze AMD64 box?
> I actually have an archived copy of the library from an old Sarge or Etch
> system.
> Could I just copy this library into /lib32?  Is that a safe thing to do?
> or there is a proper "Debian" way to make this program work?
>
> Yes, the creators should recompile the program, but so far they haven't. 
> :)
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

You can just copy the library if you still have it somewhere. Putting it
in /usr/local, as suggested in the other reply, is a good idea. Worst
case your program will crash due to incompatibilities between the
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 and other more current libs, in which case you
won't be any worse off.

MfG
        Goswin