From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: config.log contains... === configure:1703: checking for c++ configure:1719: found /usr/bin/c++ configure:1729: result: c++ configure:1769: checking for C++ compiler default output file name configure:1772: c++ conftest.cc >&5 configure:1775: $? = 0 configure:1821: result: a.out configure:1826: checking whether the C++ compiler works configure:1832: ./a.out ./a.out: /usr/local/abinitio/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.3' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6) configure:1835: $? = 1 configure:1844: error: cannot run C++ compiled programs. === I can use ./configure --without-cxx as suggested on the Python bug list. === Date: 2005-01-29 08:08 Sender: loewisSourceForge.net Donor Logged In: YES user_id=21627 This is clearly a bug in your gcc installation - perhaps some library is not up-to-date, or libstdc++ was compiled with the wrong compiler. You should report this to the FC3 developers. As a work-around, you can configure your Python --without-cxx. === Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install fc3 2. download and expand Python 2.4 3. ./configure Actual Results: The configure script fails reporting that C++ objects cannot be built because of a libstdc++ problem. Expected Results: ./configure would succeed and not report errors Additional info:
/usr/local/abinitio/lib/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.3' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6) /usr/local/abinitio/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 is not part of Fedora Core, and is older than the system libgcc_s.so.1 in /lib/. The bug is that you are thus overriding a system library with an incompatible (well, in this case likely just older) one. You need to avoid that. In this particular case I guess just rm -f /usr/local/abinitio/lib/libgcc_s* would DTRT (perhaps make a backup copy of that). But it is certainly not a bug in the distro, but a problem caused by badly packaged 3rd party software.
Yes. My apologies. The libgcc_s.so was from another third-party product, not Python. It appears to have been the source of the problem. Sorry.