Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 21:42:11 +0200
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Subject: Re: "cout has different size..."
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On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 10:30:53PM -0400, Christopher D. Morgan wrote:
> goof.com several months ago); I like the fact that it lives in 
> /opt/pgcc, rather than in the locations specified by other rpms, such 
> as the Mandrake version.

Oh, Mandrake must be really bad ;)

> As of few days ago, compiling programs with pgcc-g++ now produces the 
> ominous message, "symbol 'cout' has different size in shared object, 
> consider re-linking".  (A program is now mysteriously hanging and I 
> wonder if it related, or if I am really that bad of a programmer :-)

This is most probably caused by a mismatched libstdc++ with respect to
your system libc. Have you recently upgraded to glibc-2.1 or have you
replaced any compiler or libraries?

> What causes this message?  Any idea what kind of re-linking is being 
> talked about?  What should I do about this?  

Recompiling should suffice. If not, you have a bigger problem ;)

> On a related note, I recently downloaded pgcc-1.3-1 but chose not to 
> install it, as it appeared to be targeted at i686 (even though the 
> suffix was ".i586.rpm").  Is this safe to install on a P-5, or are 
> there really P-6 instructions embedded in it?  

I don't know how these were compiled, but I think its pretty safe to
assume that these will still work on i586 and below.

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