On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 01:52 -0600, J.Moore wrote:
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 07:33 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> J.Moore wrote:
>
> > So, it turns out I don't have "ibstdc++.so.5" on my system (FC3),
but I
> > do have "ibstdc++.so.6". I'm guessing this is a later version???
> >
> > Q: Do I have a version issue, or a path issue?
>
> A mutant version issue. Everything compiled for FC4 is built to want
> the .so.6 version. But this proprietary binary doesn't know that. To
> fix these kinds of problems Fedora includes the old .so.5 version if you
> want it:
>
> yum install compat-libstdc++
Thanks, Andy (& Felix)... that did the trick. Would I have had this
problem if I'd built this app from source?
You wouldn't have had *that* problem, but you might have needed to
install a bunch of -devel packages, and unless you made an RPM, you'd
lose the benefits of RPM's file and dependency tracking, making
uninstallation or upgrading potentially more tricky.
Paul.