On 18-May-99 E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) wrote: > The 27 and 272 packages provide support for older versions of g++. You > don't want to use these for compiling programs unless the program > depends on the bugs in the 2.7.2 compiler. For slink, you need to get > the following packages: > > g++ > libstdc++2.9-dev > libstdc++2.9 (you probably have that already) >
Thanks. I was fortunate last night when I tried dselect (I had upgraded with apt-get) and I noticed the newer packages. I installed them, dpkg complained about dependencies but still removed my old libs and installed the new ones. All seems well now. -- Andrew