> TIL that we have a twenty-year-old libstdc++ in the tree. Maybe we should mask it? It is supossed to work with gcc <3.4 and the oldest we have is 8.5.0, which is masked already.
-------- Original Message -------- On 9/10/24 02:50, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2024-09-09 at 21:33 -0300, João Matos wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > I'm trying to install the Checkpoint client for linux (cshell_install). It > > requires sys-libs/libstdc++-v3, 32 bits. I couldn't compile it and found > > this bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/919184 > > TIL that we have a twenty-year-old libstdc++ in the tree. > > > > Do you know any way of work around this? Maybe copying the binary file from > > another distro or try to use another gcc version? > > It's running a test program to find the glibc minor version: > > #include <features.h> > main(argc, argv) > int argc; > char *argv[]; > { > printf("%d\n", __GLIBC_MINOR__); > return 0; > } > > But this test program, having been written 20+ years ago, is crap. It's > missing <stdio.h> and a correct signature for "main" at least. Newer > GCCs (like the one that you're using) will refuse to compile it. So the > test fails unexpectedly, and the build stops. You might be able to > trick it by disabling -Wimplicit-int, -Wimplicit-function-declaration, > and whatever other warnings that program raises... but then you have to > actually compile the rest of it with a new GCC. Good luck :) > > >
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