Comment #32 on issue 15984 by [email protected]: /usr/local/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=15984
@rklloyd: FYI, the "bleeding edge distro" you refer to is... Ubuntu Hardy LTS. It might be bleeding edge by Centos 5.4 standards, but it's a stable distro for the rest of the world. There's every intention to ship software that will work out of the box for the majority of users. Your speculation of Google only supporting bleeding edge releases is wrong. On Linux, the landscape is complicated. You have multiple distros, all of which release at different intervals with (slightly) different versions of software. When the majority of the distros support something, in this case, libstdc++ 3.4.9, we decide it's safe to use. The line has to be drawn somewhere, and it's unfortunate Centos is on the wrong side of that line. So let's talk about Centos. You also sound very offended that we're not supporting the "very latest release of the world's most popular commercial Linux." In reality, that means RHEL/Centos only has ~2% of the Linux marketshare. [1] The world doesn't resolve around Centos, most of the distros out there have moved forward, and they're supported: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and up, Debian 5.0 (stable), Fedora 11+, OpenSUSE 11+. If Centos is dragging its feet (by design), there's nothing we can do about that. However, there might be hope. If someone actually got it to compile without the need for GLIBCXX_3.4.9, and it's not a ugly hack, then maybe that person can submit a patch to Chromium and fix this. You should ask this Chris fellow how he got it to work. (and buy him a tasty beverage.) [1] http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8454912761.html (sorry I can't seem to find a newer survey, but you get the idea.) p.s. I'm writing to you from Google Chrome on a Slackware 12.0 machine. Slackware 12.0 was released in mid 2007. It's libstdc++ was too old, and half the GTK libraries needed to run Google Chrome... too old. Fortunately it wasn't very hard to upgrade a few critical packages to a new version from Slack 12.2. :-) You just gotta think outside the box sometimes. p.p.s. I'm just the messenger, don't shoot the messenger. Of course _I_ want Chromium to run on more Linux distros, (more Chromium users == good) but there are constraints and sometimes we can't make everyone happy. If I truly didn't care, I would've just ignored this bug all together. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings -- Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs
