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Posted by Ertugrul Soeylemez on September 18, 2007, 9:20 pm
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> > > I think it's worth asking: is there legitimate reason that Sun has
> > > provided its own version of this "core" library, which comes with
> > > GCC? How old does a Linux distro or other OS have to be to not
> > > have libstdc++.so.6 ?
> >
> > If this is true, then portability may be the reason -- especially
> > Windows portability, because Windows doesn't have such a
> > sophisticated package management with dependencies and stuff.
> > Windows programs need to provide by themselves the libraries they
> > depend on. That's why Windows programs are hugh monolithic beasts
> > compared to their rather slim Linux counterparts, and that's why
> > Windows distribution involves a lot of redundancy.
>
> No, I'm referring the *Linux* version of OpenOffice. It provides its
> own libstdc++.so.6.
The Linux version is built from the same source. And yes, you're right,
it supplies its own libstdc++ even under Linux. That's pointless, but I
reckon portability is the reason. Probably you can just delete its own
libstdc++.* and let it use the system-wide one. But it may as well be
that they have customized the library.
Regards,
Ertugrul S=C3=B6ylemez.
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