On 9/9/24 8:50 PM, Michael Orlitzky 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 :)
It shouldn't be *that* hard. https://bugs.gentoo.org/923112#c13 And as Sam noted: """ I concur with Eli and Enne. We should just strip it all. It's a brittle package for ancient binaries. """ -- Eli Schwartz
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