Can c++ and libc5 coexist?

[vojta@math.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)]

Folks:

After installing the c++ package, I find that trying to compile a simple
program generates errors like:

/usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-linux/egcs-2.91.57/libstdc++.so: undefined reference to `_IO_file_seekoff@@GLIBC_2.1'

So, I tried to install the latest libc6, but that conflicts with versions
of libc5 earlier than 5.4.33-7, which seems not to be available for the
Sparc.

Can something be done about this, so that I can compile c++ programs without
losing my libc5 applications?

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu