On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 04:40:59PM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:03:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > wvstreams is implemented in C++.  Where are the package renames for the
> > C++ ABI transition?

> > Simon, is it really true that none of the wvstreams libraries use code
> > from libstdc++?  (None of the packages have dependencies on libstdc++5)
> > I guess this is possible, but at least one of the library packages has
> > undefined symbols, which makes it unsuitable for use by any sort of DSO
> > plugin:

> WvStreams does not use code from libstdc++, which we carefully avoid
> compiling in, by linking with gcc (not g++).

Hrm.  That seems of dubious benefit to me.

> Why ldd thinks we do is slightly beyond me.

ldd traverses library dependencies; it's merely reporting the fact that
libxplc.so.0.3.11-unstable depends on libstdc++ (which is one reason
why I think using gcc for linking is of dubious benefit).

> As for WvHashTableBase, this is probably some place where an
> interlibrary dependency has snuck in somehow.  I don't see it in my
> build of WvStreams 5, so I'm not going to get too stressed out about it.

Ok, that's fine.

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