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From: "Jory A. Pratt" <anarchy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan.jr@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] libstdc++ compatibility and -bin packages
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:33:56
Message-Id: 4CB3BAB8.4000902@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] libstdc++ compatibility and -bin packages by "Paweł Hajdan
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4 On 10/11/2010 09:40 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
5 > Today I got http://bugs.gentoo.org/340517 filed against chromium-bin.
6 > The machine that compiled the package had only gcc-4.4.3 installed.
7 >
8 > It'd probably be difficult to solve the problem using dependencies (the
9 > bug reporter had gcc-4.4.3 installed, but active version was 4.3.4).
10 >
11 > I was thinking about using a lower version of gcc on the builder, like
12 > 4.1.2 or 4.3.4.
13 >
14 > However, I'm not sure how likely this is to cause C++ ABI mismatch
15 > issues. I remember some problems with half of KDE compiler with one GCC
16 > version and half with a more recent version.
17 >
18 > What do you think?
19 >
20 This is where the -bin package should be shipping all its libs that it
21 will require, just as firefox-bin does. If you are rolling the -bin
22 package you should include them yourself, and set the launch script to
23 read its install dir before system dir, this is just how we resolve such
24 issues with firefox-bin.
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