fluxbox and gcc 3.2 minor problem

[scottro]

SIgh, I'm really not sure if this should go under bugs, desktop, or gcc 3--Nitro, feel free to move it if you feel it best (and let me know why you chose to do so, so that I will know better in the future)

I haven't submitted a Bugzilla report on this, because it's not going to be that common a set of circumstances and like a lamer, I didn't even write the error message.

Anyway, happened on two different boxes.

Both are running 1.4 beta, both done a few days ago, so they had gcc 3.2_pre. Today, upgraded that to the 3.2 final.

In both cases, when I typed startx, fluxbox failed to start, complaining about missing libraries.
As I'd just done this upgrade, I wasn't overly surprised so tried my first line of defense in such a case

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emerge -C fluxbox && 
emerge fluxbox

This fixed the problem both times.

So, it's a minor difficulty and easily fixed--I'm posting this more because I figured someone else might run into the problem and do a search on the forums for it.

I also realize that it was somewhat irresponsible to not get the error message--my only excuse is that I wasn't overly surprised and didn't worry too much about it, figuring that an unmerge and emerging again would fix it.

So, hopefully, this will be of use to someone

Scott

[echeslack]

I have been having a similar problem. Your error probably looked something like this...

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fluxbox: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2/libstdc++.so.5: version `CXXABI_1' not found (required by fluxbox)
fluxbox: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2/libstdc++.so.5: version `GLIBCPP_3.1' not found (required by fluxbox)

Anyway, I have had this problem with all programs that use c++, and I guess flux does too. It happened after upgrading to the gcc-3.2_pre-r1, and still happens with gcc-3.2.

By the way, even if you didn't know what had caused it, you could get a good guess by using qpkg to search what package the file belongs to:

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root@Slug ewen # qpkg -f /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.2/libstdc++.so.5
sys-devel/gcc *

So, now the problem becomes, I need to update my system, but only want to recompile the programs that need the new c++ stuff. Anybody have a good idea of how to figure this out? Or should I just recompile everything (quite painful on a p266! already took a day to do mozilla and galeon)? I assume I could at least avoid X as there shouldn't be any C++ in there.

Finally I should note to people (and maybe a mod should sticky or split for those who may be upgrading from gcc3.2_pre to gcc3.2), that upgrading breaks the ability to read even manpages until you have recompiled groff, as it uses C++ (that could leave you in a sticky situation!)

-ewen

[scottro]

Yes, my error message was quite similar--I also posted this problem to gentoo-user (again with the idea of helping anyone who ran into it.) Spider stated that it was to be expected. Someone else had a similar problem with Blackbox, but had fixed it the same way. However, that poster had been unable to get a few other things working, and Spider mentioned that he would probably have to recompile X. (The "that and a number of other things" referred to various apps that were fixed by unmerging and re-emerging them)

(here's that post)

Yes...that and a number of other things. The only one that I haven't
> been able to get working properly is xscreensaver. It will not emerge
>
> with any thing 3D based i.e. Gears, GFlux, Atlantis etc. It simply
> will not install them. Stumped
>

rebuild xfree and it should work, the opengl drivers are c++ code.

and this was to be expected, the binary abi changed again in gcc
3.2_pre to 3.2 sharp.

Thanks for the headsup about the man pages--just tried that, and sure enough, you were right. Glad I found that out before I needed to use them for something.

Scott

[scottro]

BTW, there is a thread (I should have looked first) on packages that aren't working with 3.2
over at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=11963


Scott