RHEL3 missing library

[Andrew Bacchi]

<rant>

I just upgraded my workstation yesterday from RH 8 to RHAS 4, a job I've 
been meaning to do for the past 3 years.  After getting tons of stuff 
set up the way they were on my old version, I tried installing Firefox, 
not the rpm, but the tar.gz from Mozilla.  It complained about not 
finding libstdc++.so.5.

Now I checked the versions, and I show libstdc++ 6.0.3 installed, but 
Firefox is looking for an OLDER gcc library.  Umm, a little coordination 
needs to be arranged between the software guys.  And YES that is what we 
are paying RH to do.

I've had no problem on any of my many AS 3 or AS 4 servers, but when I 
want to run a desktop my simple workstation barfs.  RedHat needs to do 
better, else slip down to MS level.

</rant>

mark wrote:
> Dag Wieers wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, mark wrote:
> <snip>
>> The fact that on a RHEL3 he sees the GCC_4.2.0 require?ment probably 
>> means that he has been mixing packages build for RHEL4 (or another 
>> distribution with gcc 4) on his RHEL3.
> 
> THAT makes sense, and I hadn't caught. Of course, I checked on the 
> version of gcc I have on my home system, since that's where I was when I 
> responded, but I'm on SuSE 10. I did think that 4.2 was very recent, but 
> passed over it (he says, with his brain melting by the time he gets home).
>>
>> This is not something that happens on a normal system if you stick to 
>> what Red Hat provides.
> 
> Or he could be dealing with a case such as I have at work, with one or 
> two RHEL 3 systems, and all the new servers pre-installed w/ RHEL4....
> 
>     mark
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> --   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
>> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
>>
> 

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Andrew Bacchi
Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
phone: 518.276.6415  fax: 518.276.2809

http://www.rpi.edu/~bacchi/