According to Bill Carlson:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
> > I'm trying to install htdig on a Cobalt Qube 2700WG.  When I run
> > /configure, I get to the point at which it checks for a c++ compiler.
> > it states that the c++ compiler can not create executables and stops.
> > 
> > After looking through the online FAQs for htdig, I did see that you need
> > libstdc++ which wasn't installed. I got it installed, and that does not
> > fix it.  For those of you not familiar with the Cobalt Qube, it runs a
> > modified version of Redhat Linux, on a MIPS cpu.
> >
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> Glad you hit this before I did, I was about to try htdig on a qube.
> 
> At any rate, to compile htdig you need the c++ (such as g++) compiler, not
> just libstdc++. I would guess there is an rpm on Cobalt's site for g++, if
> not htdig itself.
> 
> Good Luck! 

Yes, the package you need is egcs-c++.  There is also a problem with the
standard C++ libraries on Cobalt systems, so you need to get an update
(for both libstd++ and egcs-c++) from the Cobalt FTP site.

According to Tomas Garcia Ferrari: 
> 
> >Can you let us know, for the record, what the fix is? We've had a few 
> >other reports of segmentation faults on Cobalt servers. Did you just 
> >have to install update packages for the egcs libraries? Where did you 
> >obtain them? Thanks. 
> 
> I've installed this 
> binutils-2.8.1-3C1.mips.rpm 
> egcs-1.0.2-9.mips.rpm 
> egcs-c++-1.0.2-9.mips.rpm 
> egcs-g77-1.0.2-9.mips.rpm 
> egcs-objc-1.0.2-9.mips.rpm 
> libstdc++-2.8.0-9.mips.rpm 
> libstdc++-devel-2.8.0-9.mips.rpm 
> plus: 
> gcc-2.7.2-C2.mips.rpm 
> (using the --force option for this). 
> 
> I've downloaded them from the experimental directory of the cobalt ftp 
> server.

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