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

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 01:52 -0600, J.Moore wrote:
> 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?

You wouldn't have had *that* problem, but you might have needed to
install a bunch of -devel packages, and unless you made an RPM, you'd
lose the benefits of RPM's file and dependency tracking, making
uninstallation or upgrading potentially more tricky.

Paul.