Anyone know if the Slackware64 a/cxxlibs package will contain the older libstdc++ libs? Currently, the cxxlibs-6.0.9-x86_64-1 package only contains /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.

I noticed RealPlayer (64-bit) requires libstdc++.so.5 which is why I'm asking if Pat has made any decisions of adding .so.5 (or even .so.4, although probably not needed by any proprietary 64-bit apps) to the cxxlibs package. Maybe it slipped his mind or is he intentionally not including the older libs for Slackware64?

The Slackware 32-bit cxxlibs package contains the older libs in /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib, but obviously I can't just copy, as those are 32-bit and the RealPlayer I'm installing is 64-bit. I'm not too worried about obtaining a copy of 64-bit libstdc++.so.5, as I already have one, just wondering if there's any plans or not to include it in cxxlibs.

Jason

Maybe you should email Pat and ask him, since here you'll
only *really* get our opinions.

The content of the cxxlibs package is "harvested" from older Slackware packages. They are never rebuilt on a current Slackware. This means, that we can not easily add these old library files (libstdc++.so.5 was part of Slackware 9) on our 64bit version of Slackware.

Eric

You can create them by compiling older gcc sources and then 'harvesting' the libs -if you can get the older versions of gcc to compile at all. I'd guess that gcc-3.2.3 would be what you are after...

Yes you can create them. The question is, will we be doing that. The answer will likely be "no".

Eric