[gentoo-catalyst] C++ programs

[Paul Smith]

Hm.  I installed a C++ program on the livecd, but it fails to
run because it's missing libstdc++.

Checking I see that on Gentoo, that library appears to live in the gcc
package.  The livecd unmerges the gcc package, so at runtime that
library no longer exists.

I understand that this library is tied very closely with the compiler,
but it seems incorrect to me that if you don't have the compiler package
installed on your system, all your C++ programs fail to start!  In
Debian for example this library is distributed as a separate package.


How do others manage this?  Do you unmerge it but copy that library to
/lib by hand?  Leave it merged but use livecd/empty and livecd/rm to
clean out the stuff you don't want?  Leave the whole package merged and
not worry about the wasted space? ... or ... ?

Hm, I see there's a sys-libs/libstdc++, but it's masked... is merging
that package how this issue is normally handled?


Cheers!

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