On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 11:43:28PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed the latest unstable version of Debian on Saturday and am > either doing something wrong or I have found a bug. On top of this, I > have followed the mini-howto for upgrading from libc5 to libc6 and > installed all of the suggested packages.
On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > The version of g++ that is available at debian isn't thread safe. It *is* > possible to have it work with threads, but as soon as you include > something like strings, and especially gnu extensions String and List, it > will break with a core dump. > > The answer is, go to http://www.cygnus.com/egcs and get egcs, which > provides a thread safe c++ environment. Get the newly released egcs-1.0 > or snapshot egcs-971201, and you're set. You'll need the 'core' and > 'g++', which are about 9Meg, and takes around 4-6hrs to compile. egcs-1.0 and a matching libstdc++ can be found in project/experimental . HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .