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From: Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 11:38:19
Message-Id: 4819AB0A.9070108@manchester.ac.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >> I used revdep-rebuild --SEARCH_DIRS /opt
5 >> with no luck. How do I check it to enable /opt?
6 >> thanks
7 >> g
8 >
9 > revdep-rebuild will not solve your problem. It only fixes problems where
10 > binaries used to link to other files that are no longer there. It
11 > cannot fix your incompatible CXXABI versions in libstdc++ as it doesn't
12 > know which gcc versions provide that.
13 >
14 > Read this thread:
15 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4107570.html?sid=8acb0d609d3259d3af0dd1c262c7d277
16 > the last post on the page is especially informative.
17 >
18 > Run this:
19 > strings /usr/lib/gcc/i486-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6 | grep ABI
20 > to find out what version your gcc is providing. skype requires:
21 >
22 > CXXABI_1.3.1
23 > GLIBCXX_3.4.4
24 >
25 > as per your original post. I recommend you upgrade gcc to version 4.1.2
26 >
27 >
28 >
29 >
30 >
31 thanks,
32 However I need gcc 3~ for some critical software. If I change to 4 'it'
33 won't recompile. I suppose I could alternate profiles as required.
34 g
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Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>