On 7/13/05, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Adam Fineman wrote:
>=20
> > I am trying to run a 3rd-party closed-source app on NetBSD 2.0.2.  It
> > is linked with libstdc++.so.4, which is not present on my system.  Is
> > there a compatibility package somewhere that I can install?
>=20
> libstdc++.so.4 is from NetBSD 1.6.x
>=20

Thanks.  I did find it there, but I'm not sure of the best way to
install it on 2.0.x.

> I will let someone else answer about using it or if it is needed with
> 2.0.2.
>=20

It is only needed if one wants to run an app that is dynamically
linked with it, which is true in my case.

> I assume you could extract the needed libraries from a NetBSD 1.6.2
> tarfile.

Would I have to build the library from source, or is there a
pre-compiled package that contains libstdc++.so.4 that would not
conflict with anything on my 2.0.2 distribution?  I want to avoid
building from source in this case, because I don't want to have to
build the entire g++ package from 1.6.2 if I don't have to, especially
if it might corrupt my existing runtime libraries.

Also, is there some utility in NetBSD that would allow me to search
for a package that provides a particular file?

Thanks for your response,

- Adam