Re: No more C++ ?

[Daniel Martin <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>]

Michael Beattie <mickyb@es.co.nz> writes:

> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > > robinson:~/uni/c++/src$ c++ hello.C
> > > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: No such file or directory
> > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > >
> > > > I heard some people have the same problem.
> > > > But how can I fix it?
> > > 
> > > You need libstdc++, install it.
> > 
> > That's not the solution, at least for me.  I _had_ working C++ prior to
> > the __register_frame_info problem upgrades.  I checked /usr/lib.  All of
> > the usual C++ libraries are there, including libstdc++-2.8 and 2.9.
> 
> There is a thread in -devel about this, a problem with a link not
> extisting or something, check the recent archive for something on it.

Really?  I couldn't find that thread.  In any case, the problem is
that there's no file libstdc++.so - I fixed this by (as root) doing
the following:
  cd /usr/lib
  ln -s libstdc++-2-libc6.0-1-2.9.0.so libstdc++.so

There will be a new libstdc++2.9-dev soon enough.