The firefox developers, in their reciprocally infinite wisdom, are pushing Firefox 4, which requires libstdc++.so.6 with GLIBCXX_3.4.9 . The available libstdc++.i386 0:4.1.2-50.el5 RPM for RHEL 5x, CENTOS 5x, and SL 5x contains only GLIBCXX_3.4.8 . You can read more about it here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2075033
The hack mentioned (installing a newer version of libstdc++ in the firefox4 directory) doesn't seem very upgradable. It is also not complete - in the binary directory (I've put mine at /opt/firefox) you not only need to add the libstdc++.so.6.0.10, you also must softlink it to libstdc++.so.6 so firefox can see it. Firefox 4 also can't find my firefox 3.6x passwords, customizations, etc. Back to 3.6.16 for now, until I figure out how to port those. 3.6.15 currently launches a security nag box to upgrade to 3.6.16, but that gets redirected to 4.0 at the firefox website. 3.6.16 is hidden here: /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.16/linux-i686/en-US/ Given the way they've structured things, there may not be a 3.6.17 and subsequent security upgrades. I realize that some people want the latest and greatest thing. However, they are not entitled to make that decision for others. Perhaps everything they own that is older than 3 years should be confiscated, giving them a chance to test their philosophy more generally. Grump, growl. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
