Re: a couple notes on the libc 2.1 packages
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 03:50:30PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > - There's something weird going on with the libstdc++ packages.
> > libstdc++ linked with libc 2.1 is supposed to be backward compatible
> > with C++ binaries linked with libc 2.0. (If this doesn't work,
> > upstream would really like to know about it.) The libstdc++ packages
> > have been set up such that a C++ program linked with the old
> > libstdc++2.9 keeps using it, and this does not work. So any C++
> > program segfaults until relinked.
This seems to be the root of the confusion. According to HJ Lu, this
should not be the case. The existing libstdc++ should continue to
work, and applications should remain linked to it until recompiled. Is
this not the case for you?
Dan
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| Daniel Jacobowitz |__| CMU, CS class of 2002 |
| Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Part-Time Systems Programmer |
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