Package: g++-3.2 Version: 1:3.2.1-0pre2 Severity: important see also http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.2/c++-abi.html
"g++-3.2 -v" outputs Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-linux/3.2.1/specs Configured with: /build/buildd/gcc-3.2-3.2.1ds1/src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,proto,objc,ada --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.2 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-objc-gc alpha-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.2.1 20020912 (Debian prerelease) which definitely lacks "--enable-__cxa_atexit" fyi, other linux distributions (such as redhat-8.0) are using the common ABI convention, if debian does not, we'll suffer interoperability problems with shared C++ libs, and we'll render the whole Common C++ ABI efforts void :-( -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: alpha Kernel: Linux s4addq 2.4.9-31 #1 Tue Feb 26 06:07:30 EST 2002 alpha Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages g++-3.2 depends on: ii gcc-3.2 1:3.2.1-0pre2 The GNU C compiler. ii gcc-3.2-base 1:3.2.1-0pre2 The GNU Compiler Collection (base ii libc6.1 2.2.5-14.3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++5-dev 1:3.2.1-0pre2 The GNU stdc++ library version 3 (