Ticket #764 (closed defect: fixed)
Get libstdc++.so.5 on to the dialups
| Reported by: | jdreed | Owned by: | jweiss |
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| Priority: | blocker | Milestone: | Natty Alpha |
| Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
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Description
The rest of the world still relies on this library, unfortunately, so we need to find a way to get it on to the dialups. (Discussions of why programs that still rely on this are Wrong(tm) is out of scope for this ticket.)
Conventional wisdom seems to be to install the amd64 version from here:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/libstdc++5
and also download the i386 version from the same place, and use dpkg-deb to manually shove the i386 libraries in /usr/lib32.
We should possibly consider a compatibility package.
Change History
comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
So, in Lucid, the package is in backports, but is there an appropriate ia32libs package to install the 32-bit version on 64-bit lucid machines? Or do we still have to do that by hand?
Should we enable -backports on cluster and workstation (and the dialups), then? re there any potential screw cases to doing so?
comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
We're blocking on a discussion of the implications of enabling -backports ( release-team:7266), and a good mechanism for keeping the 32-bit version of the library up to date if we install that by hand.
comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by jdreed
- Owner set to jweiss
- Status changed from new to assigned
This was discussed at release-team. We'll use backports (pinning back all packages except libstdc++5) for the amd64 version, and we'll update the 32-bit version by hand.
No need to hijack a Debian package; libstdc++5 is in lucid-backports.
(In maverick and later, libstdc++5 is back in the main repository, and /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.5 is back in ia32-libs.)