On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 22:30 +0100, keith.jamieson@bt.com wrote:
Chris
The one I have used before successfully for other things is a symbolic link - it works most of the time going from a higher to a lower library :)
Yes that would stand a chance of working but the problem with doing it on a core lib like this is that it may introduce unexpected behaviour into any other app you install that depends on it, even if it doesn't cause a problem with Firefox. This was the purpose of putting version numbers in shared libs, to avoid "dll hell". In 2 months time when you are scratching your head fighting a strange bug on another app that nobody else seems to have repeated, you will forget you did this symlink. Heaven forbid of course that this other app is doing anything important with your data :)
On ubuntu 64 I have libstdc++5 as an available package alongside 6 on the standard repros, does Fedora not have a compat-libstdc++ package (I know RHEL has them so I was assuming they are present in all Red Hat derivatives)