On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 12:55:15AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Ahh. And any old support isn't possible since it'd have to be built
> > against glibc2.1, which means glibc2.1 would have to be available for
> > woody, which it won't be since glibc2.2 is.
> Er, so? We don't guarentee we can build everything in woody with stuff in
> woody in an automated fashion.
>
> Include the binary from potato, and whatever source is required to keep
> RMS happy and don't worry about it.
The source is "gcc", which has been messed around with in woody.
> We go through this every release, and we always do this. We *MUST* ship
> the usual set of libsdtdc++'s because commercial apps, and apps from other
> distributions use them, not to mention us :P
libstdc++2.8, 2.9 and 2.10 shipped with potato; of those only 2.8 is
still present in sid; which means all the others will be removed from
woody sooner or later unless someone fixes this...
Cheers,
aj
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