version or path issue w/ libstdc++.so ?

[J.Moore]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 07:33 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> J.Moore wrote:
> 
> > So, it turns out I don't have "ibstdc++.so.5" on my system (FC3), but I
> > do have "ibstdc++.so.6". I'm guessing this is a later version???
> > 
> > Q: Do I have a version issue, or a path issue?
> 
> A mutant version issue.  Everything compiled for FC4 is built to want
> the .so.6 version.  But this proprietary binary doesn't know that.  To
> fix these kinds of problems Fedora includes the old .so.5 version if you
> want it:
> 
> yum install compat-libstdc++

Thanks, Andy (& Felix)... that did the trick. Would I have had this
problem if I'd built this app from source?

Danke,
Jay