newbie question - need to get libstdc++.so.5

[Geir Magnusson Jr.]

On Jan 8, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 15:10 -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a newbie so forgive the stupid questions and misnaming things -
>> I'll learn quickly...
>>
>> I'm playing around with getting Apache Harmony (an OSS impl of Java
>> SE) to run on an OLPC image running in Parallels in OS X.  Currently,
>> I'm using build 218.
>
> Does harmony _require_ libstdc++.so.5?  Since it's OSS, you probably
> want to either yell at them build against a gcc >= 4, or rebuild it
> yourself against libstdc++.so.6.

Well, I'm "them" in this case, so I can easily rebuild w/ gcc >= 4.   
I do on gcc 4.x for x86_64, so happy to do it for x86.

<aside>
Would you in general recommend gcc 4.x for anything and everything?
</aside>

And yes, now I see that .6 is there - see...a  stupid question on my  
part :)

> For playing around with, I can
> understand installing .5.  But you should really make it use .6 at a
> later date.
>
> Until then:
>
> yum install compat-libstdc++-33
>

Thanks for the prompt answer.  I'll make it .6 and give it a another  
try...

> Dan
>
>> Can someone tell me the right way to get libstdc++.so.5 installed?  I
>> assume I use rpm? (I've been spending most of my time in ubuntu-land
>> lately, so I'm rusty...)
>>
>> How am I sure I get the right build?
>>
>> thanks in advance, and again, sorry for the newbie question - my
>> questions will get smarter over time :)
>>
>> geir
>>
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