On Fri, 1 Jan 1999 19:13:12 -0700 (MST), Robert Dodier wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Happy new year!
>
>I would like to run jikes on my RH 5.0 linux box, but jikes wants
>libstdc++-2.8, while the current rpm contains libstdc++-2.7 and ...-2.9,
>but not 2.8. :(
You should be able to get the Jikes libc5 version or download the
source to Jikes and compile it locally.
The glibc version is RedHat 5.2 with egcs compiler and not statically
linked with the libstdc++
>On a related note, perhaps jikes should be bundled with the libstdc++
>which it wants; I symlinked 2.8 to 2.9 and jikes dies with a "symbol
>not found." Is it usual for apps to be bundled with specific library
>versions, or more usual that they aren't?
Well, it is usually not nice to bundle an application with all of the
libraries it needs since it just takes up disk space. Much of the
point of shared libraries is to reduce download time and disk space
and in-memory space and ease of fixing problems in the library.
However, it also means that you have problems with library versions
and incompatibilities. Yuck.
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- http://www.nextbus.com
My place on the web ---> http://www.users.fast.net/~michael_sinz
