On 24 April 2007 at 8:58, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Egor Pasko wrote: > > To summarize the thread. We have several ideas on how to treat > > libstdc++ diversity on various linux systems: > > > > 1. create both snapshots (libstdc++ 5 and 6 separately) plus a good > > instruction for not-very-geeky users (like me:) on how to check what > > version of libstdc++ you have on your system > > We just declare which distro the snapshot is designed to work on. I > don't think we would expect users to seek out the libstdc++ version.
+1. I'm just testing a change (and some new icu libs for x86 only) to add an option to build with libstdc++6 - that is, "-Duse.libstdc++6=true". What should the default be? Currently all the linux platform libs that are checked in depend on libstdc++.so.5 but I'd be surprised if this was still the most common version? (Of course, the fact that all the platforms have been "independently" compiled and ended up like using libstdc++.so.5 would imply that I'm wrong.) > > 2. download libstdc++ and recompile it in our build, link in a way > > whatever is convenient (does it need to tweak gcc afterwards?) > > Please, no. Agreed. This would make the install considerably more error prone and time consuming. ;-) > > not many ideas. I would appreciate comments and final decisions on this. > > I think we declare the snapshot's intended target, then it becomes a > community issue of whether we have people who are willing to provide a > snapshot configuration on a given disro. -Mark.
