Bug#226975: gcc-3.3: Does not report version number

[Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com>]

close 226975
thanks


On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:51:42PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> Package: gcc-3.3
> Version: 1:3.3.2-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> Software that depends on versioning information from GCC doesn't work:

Funny, the rest of the world gets it just fine...


> david@tole:~$ openoffice
> OpenOffice.org for Debian - see
> /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz
> running openoffice.org setup...
> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup.bin:
> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.3' not found
> (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5)
> setup failed.. abort

This looks to be a dependancy issue in OpenOffice offhand, but I'm not
familiar with that software.


> david@tole:~$ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 3.3.2 (Debian)
>      ^^^
> note that line above doesn't include _3.3 expected by libgcc_s.so.1

Um.  Not really sure how to say this without laughing...

Kindly just report the symptoms, and let the doctors do the diagnosing.
The output of --version has absolutely nothing to do with the SONAME field
of a shared library.


Phil

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