Re: a couple notes on the libc 2.1 packages
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:58:19 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>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?
Hmm, it seems to depend on the program. groff and apt still work, but
prcs dumped core until I rebuilt it. Maybe prcs is doing something
dirty with iostreams.
zw
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