Re: libtool-1.5.14 make check

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Please look if your installed /opt/gnu/gcc-2.95.2 tree contains a shared
> libstdc++.  If so, where is it?  Show output of
>  echo 'int main() {return 0;}' > a.cc
>  /opt/gnu/gcc-2.95.2/bin/g++ -v -o a a.cc
>
> If that tree has no shared libstdc++, I'm unsure what to do here, short
> of disabling shared libs for this old C++ compiler on Solaris.  I
> believe, however, that gcc-2.95 does provide shared libstdc++ for it in
> principle.  Linking against an external libstdc++ should be much more
> error-prone.

Building libstdc++ and other GCC libraries as shared libraries was 
(and perhaps still is) not the default.  It is a necessary option that 
the person who builds/installs GCC needs to be aware of.  It is not 
feasable to build C++ shared libraries without a shared libstdc++.

Bob
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