Shibboleth Developers

Title: Re: Target binaries / miscellany - solaris

At 7:57 PM -0400 5/25/03, Derek Atkins wrote:

> Well, shib2 has libstdc++-3.2.2-2
> installed.  You said you had
> libstdc++-3.2-7, right?  It's not a surprise that it's not
> working.
>
> I don't know where scott found this 3.2.2-2 RPM.  RH9 ships
> with
> 3.2.2-5.

from the GCC pages....

from the 3.2.2 announcement (feb 5)

> On the following i386-based systems GCC 3.2.1 broke
> the C ABI wrt. functions returning structures: Cygwin, FreeBSD (GCC
> 3.2.1 as shipped with FreeBSD 5.0 does not have this problem),
> Interix, a.out-based Linux and NetBSD, OpenBSD, and Darwin. GCC 3.2.2
> reverts this ABI change, and thus restores ABI-compatibility with
> previous releases (except GCC 3.2.1) on these
> platforms.

from the 3.2.3 announcement (april 25):

> 3.2.3 is a bug fix release only; there are no new
> features that were not present in GCC 3.2.2.

3.3 was released about 10 days ago.... but in a quick scan there don't seem to be any BIG ABI issues (altho someone other than me ought to look at the release pages.....)

Thoughts on which version to use?

when I look on sun freeware, I see 2.95 and 3.2.3 -- anyone know whether solaris sysadmins typically install from the gcc site, or from sun freeware?

Guess we'll talk about this some during tomorrow's call......