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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
<snip>
> Any library using the 3.3 libstdc++ will be unusable for a program
> linked to the 3.4 libstdc++. Those ABI issues will eventually stop, as
> the C++ ABI is a standard. The gcc people started following that
> standard with 3.0, but it seems like it's not that easy to get it right.
>
> I think a FAQ entry for this telling people to do a cleanse --fix after
> upgrading g++ is the way to go here. Triggers should be reserved for
> stuff that essentially breaks with every upgrade, like imagemagick
> changing the library version number even on micro version updates.

Added to our FaqUsage[0] under "Misc gettext/glibc/gcc issues".

-sandalle

[0] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=FaqUsage

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