Hello. There are various programs I am trying to compile at the moment on Fedora Core 3. They return the error that they cannot find

libstdc++.so.5

I notice that I have libstdc++.so.6 in /usr/lib. Can anybody help?

i assume your compiler is new like 3.4.1 or so
i think the solution is to get a copy of the latest cvs version of
"Beyond Linux From Scratch" book
and follow the instructions to build GCC-3.3.4 as an extra compiler
afterward you might have to use the instructions at the bottom about altering PATH to point to the alternative gcc first in order to compile the package against libstdc++.so.5
for packages that just need the libs at runtime this will also create that

is there any other way to get the libstdc++.so.5 rather than build the newest GCC?

I had this problem when I was trying to compile my game project this weekend. Well it wasn't really a problem, but it spit out some warning at me after it compiled. I'm using the Debian repository packages and I installed gcc (which installed gcc3.3) and I saw that there was gcc 3.4 so I installed that as well, then later when to /usr/bin and changed the gcc symbolic link to point to gcc3.4 instead of 3.3. I'm not completely sure, but I think gcc3.4 uses libstdc++.6.0 and gcc3.3 uses libstdc++.5.0 or something.


My quick and dirty solution to the problem was just to uninstall gcc3.4 and reinstall gcc and then everything was fine. Not the best solution by any means, but I had a lot of work to get done so I didn't want to deal with library/compiler issues.

I think you need compat-libstdc++.

what is compat-libstdc++ actually?

Do a search on google or the Redhat site for a more accurate description of what it does. All I know is that it provides some packages that are needed by gcc for c++ stuff.