Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 72677
libstdc++.so.4 missing
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:03 EDT
Description of Problem: Version 3.1 of the gcc/g++/libstdc++ suite provided a libstdc++ with the soname/filename libstdc++.so.4. g++-3.2 has an incompatible API and therefore correctly (IMHO) delivers libstdc++.so.5. Yet there are still some apps from the Beta (IIRC) around (and from other distributions using g++-3.1) requiring libstdc++.so.4, but this file is not found in the usual place "compat-libstdc++" (or anywhere else for that matter) yet. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.110 How Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run a program which was dynamically linked against libstdc++.so.4. 2. 3. Actual Results: libstdc++.so.4 is missing, program doesn't run. Expected Results: Program should run. Additional Information: Alas. I can install the packages libstdc++-3.1-xy and libstdc++-3.2.zz in parallel (-ivh instead of -Uvh), there are no conflicts. But IMHO it's "not the way to go" [tm]. ;-) And libstdc++-3.1-xy isn't being delivered anymore. A fix would make RedHat just that little bit more compatible to many apps. :) Thanks for listening, Moritz
We are shipping compat libraries only for the compilers we have shipped. Shipping further libraries means we'd have to support them. The amount of apps linked against 3.1 libstdc++ is still small and they'll be eventually recompiled with 3.2 anyway. There is nothing that prevents downloading packaged 3.1 libstdc++ from the same place you downloaded those apps linked against it or build it yourself.