172788 - Phoenix-0.2 will not run because of missing libstdc++

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[tenthumbs]

I have a libstdc++ for every released gcc version from 2.7.2.3 up but the 0.2
tarball wants libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3. A little searching shows that this
tarball was built with
   GCC: (GNU) 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)
so you require a proprietary library not available to many people. Do you really
want to do that?

Haven't checked the nightlies yet.

Comment 1

[Darren Salt]

What's proprietary about it?

FWIW, this version is in Debian 3.0 as package "libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2". I would
imagine that it's also in RH 8.0 and is installable on 7.3, theough presumably
requiring the presence of libc6 2.2.4.

Comment 2

[James Cooper]

Maybe not proprietary, but certainly not universal. My brand-spanking-new Gentoo
didn't have it, and I wasn't sure how to get it. So I had to copy it from an old
RedHat install. Can't really speak as to what would be better to use (maybe
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2), but I would gather that
libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 isn't ideal.

Comment 3

[corey]

libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 doesn't exist on RH 6.2 systems, either.

I have not yet been able to successfully build phoenix on my 6.2 machine (it was
fine on my 7.x), but I don't know if the two are related.

Comment 4

[tenthumbs]

It's probably legal for me to download Redhat's compiler source and
build it, assuming I wanted to. It's less clear to me that it's
legitimate for me to download a single rpm and extract one file from it
(assuming I can find the right package). Maybe I'm supposed to download
the entire system. Who knows. I don't want to waste my time finding out.
In any event, I would have to build rpm just for that.

Debian's about the same. I would have to build dpkg from scratch.

Limiting testing to only those who can find this library doesn't seem
like a smart idea. Phoenix could easily find itself depending on a
Redhat feature/bug. Besides, 2.96 is known to be very buggy.

The glibc 2.2.x dependency is another issue that will cause problems.

Comment 5

[Tushar Teredesai]

FYI, regarding comment #4, you don't to download rpm or dpkg to unpack rpm/deb
archives. Search google for rpm2targz (from Slackware) and deb2targz. The deb
format can be extracted using "ar file.deb". Or send me an e-mail and I will
mail them to you.

Also, on my LinuxFromScratch system, libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is symlinked to
libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so (from gcc-2.95.3 gnu release available at
gcc.gnu.org). I did not create the link manually, it was automatically created
during installation of gcc-2.95.3.

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

not a bug.

Comment 7

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Mass-verifying of old bugs.