Hi, while trying to get a "clean" system after downgrading gcc to gcc-4.4.5. I encountered a field of black magick...more black than magic at all:
To find broken libs I did these two commands: sudo find /usr/lib/. /lib/. /usr/bin/. -type f -name 'lib*[^a]' -exec ldd {} \; >! /tmp/librebuild.txt 2>&1 cat /tmp/librebuild.txt | grep GLIB and got a list like this one: /usr/lib/./firefox/libxpcom.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by //usr/lib64/xulrunner-2.0/libxul.so) /usr/lib/./firefox/components/libdbusservice.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by //usr/lib64/xulrunner-2.0/libxul.so) /usr/lib/./firefox/components/libbrowsercomps.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by //usr/lib64/xulrunner-2.0/libxul.so) /usr/lib/./firefox/components/libmozgnome.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by //usr/lib64/xulrunner-2.0/libxul.so) /usr/lib/./libwpd-stream-0.9.so.9.0.4: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./libwpd-stream-0.9.so.9.0.4) /usr/lib/./xulrunner-devel-2.0/sdk/lib/libxpcom.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by //usr/lib64/xulrunner-2.0/libxul.so) /usr/lib/./xulrunner-devel-2.0/sdk/lib/libxul.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./xulrunner-devel-2.0/sdk/lib/libxul.so) /usr/lib/./ardour2/libpbd.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./ardour2/libpbd.so) /usr/lib/./ardour2/libgtkmm2ext.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./ardour2/libgtkmm2ext.so) /usr/lib/./ardour2/surfaces/libardour_powermate.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./ardour2/surfaces/libardour_powermate.so) /usr/lib/./ardour2/surfaces/libardour_genericmidi.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./ardour2/surfaces/libardour_genericmidi.so) /usr/lib/./ardour2/surfaces/libardour_tranzport.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./ardour2/surfaces/libardour_tranzport.so) /usr/lib/./ardour2/surfaces/libardour_mackie.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./ardour2/surfaces/libardour_mackie.so) /usr/lib/./ardour2/libardour.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./ardour2/libardour.so) /usr/lib/./ardour2/libmidi++.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./ardour2/libmidi++.so) /usr/lib/./ardour2/libardour_cp.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./ardour2/libardour_cp.so) /usr/lib/./xulrunner-2.0/libxpcom.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by //usr/lib64/xulrunner-2.0/libxul.so) /usr/lib/./xulrunner-2.0/components/libdbusservice.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by //usr/lib64/xulrunner-2.0/libxul.so) /usr/lib/./xulrunner-2.0/components/libmozgnome.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by //usr/lib64/xulrunner-2.0/libxul.so) /usr/lib/./xulrunner-2.0/libxul.so: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./xulrunner-2.0/libxul.so) /usr/lib/./libwpd-0.9.so.9.0.4: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./libwpd-0.9.so.9.0.4) /usr/lib/./libdigikamdatabase.so.2.0.0: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./libdigikamdatabase.so.2.0.0) /usr/lib/./libwpg-0.2.so.2.0.1: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib64/libwpd-0.9.so.9) /usr/lib/./libwpg-0.2.so.2.0.1: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib64/libwpd-stream-0.9.so.9) /usr/lib/./libMagick++.so.5.0.0: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /usr/lib/./libMagick++.so.5.0.0) (a emerge gcc:4.4 has already been completed at that point) For me it looks like -- for example /usr/lib/./libMagick++.so.5.0.0 -- still awaits the API introduced with gcc:4.5 I rebuild a lot of applications and library-containing package, but there are some which seems to resistant against my attempts to solve their problems via recompiling them with gcc-4.4.5 In general I did for example sudo emerge /usr/lib/./libMagick++.so.5.0.0 but the next find/grep-combo still reports it as broken. The settings are: solfire:/home/user>gcc-config -l [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.5 * [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.5.3 Either I misunderstood the context complete or.... I misunderstand completly. Any ideas, whats going on here? Best regards, mcc