Re: [<warp@whitestar.soark.net>] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

[Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

    Dan> See, it's not "Is anyone going to?" or "Do we agree we
    Dan> should?" right now.  It's "does anyone but Dan have the time
    Dan> to look at http://master.debian.org/~dan and figure out why
    Dan> the compiled libstdc++2.8 package whose source is there is
    Dan> missing a lot of important symbols".  I can't figure it out.

    Ben> The source in http://master.debian.org/~dan in the libstdc
    Ben> sir is for 2.9. Could this be the problem?

    Dan> I present
    Dan> http://master.debian.org/~dan/libstdc/libstdc++_2.90.29-1.dsc
    Dan> for your enjoyment...

    Dan> Notice it says Binary: libstdc++2.8.

    Ben> Wow. How does 2.90 compile out to become 2.8?

    Dan> The same way egcs 1.1b becomes gcc 2.91.53.  The one is an
    Dan> interface number and the other an internal version.

Well, I've given this a compile and you're right.

[ben@gilgamesh:~/src/libstdc]% mysql
mysql: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8: undefined symbol: __ti9exception
[ben@gilgamesh:~/src/libstdc]% exit

I can't find any mention of anything like this in the libstdc++
sources. Have you mailed the egcd team?

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