Debian does configure libstdc++ with --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=mt , based on discussions in April 2004 on libstdc++. Fedora used that configuration as well, and in July 2005 went back to configure libstdc++ using the default (new) allocator due to outstanding problems with the mt allocator. I got the advise to change this configuration in Debian as well. The symbols exported by libstdc++ for both configurations are the same, however it has an effect on symbols exported by libraries which use containers (using an allocator) from the template headers (seen in about 1/4 of the Debian packages depending on libstdc++6). These packages having references to the mt_alloc symbols have to be rebuilt, but is it necessay to rebuild the remaing 3/4 packages as well? Questions raised in [1] were about a change in the internal representation of std::string (which I cannot see), or some other template instantiation provided by libstdc++.
Thanks, Matthias [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2005/11/msg00115.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
