Libraries disappearing from compat-libstdc++-296

William M. Quarles walrus at bellsouth.net
Sun Nov 9 14:38:47 UTC 2008


Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:47:57 -0400
>> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree that no one should be building with those libraries, but in 
>>> fact people do use binaries already using them.
>>
<snip>
>> I've just started making my own "compat" rpm with libraries from older
>> fedora versions packaged up to be installed on the new fedora to allow
>> my older binaries to run. If it ever reaches the point where that isn't
>> good enough, I guess I'll have to investigate upgrading after all :-).
>>
> You might think about where to release that for other to find.
> 

WORD! Ditto on that one, that could be really useful to a number of 
people. You might want to see who would be willing to post that for you 
on a site for others to download.

Peace,
William




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