Re: [gentoo-user] Bug 919184 - sys-libs/libstdc++-v3-3.3.6-r4

[Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@gentoo.org>]

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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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