On Wed, 24 May 2006, Stuart Brooks wrote:

>>> I would like to be able to use a different compiler to build and run
>>> some of my own applications on Netbsd 1.6.1. The native compiler is
> gcc
>>> 2.95.3 and I would like to use gcc 3.3.x (because of exception
> handling
>>> problems in 2.95). What concerns me is shared library compatibility -
>>> especially X, QT, GL etc - since I know that the C++ ABI differs
> between
>>> those 2 gcc releases.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of any documentation which might cover this, and if
>>> anyone has tried something like this I would appreciate any hints or
>>> advice,
>>
>> You'll probably need to recompile/re-install all the c++ shared
> libraries.
>
> Thanks for the reply. Does that mean that any "straight" C libraries
> should be fine? At the time of writing I had rebuilt QT, and things
> worked nominally although I have core dumps when I hit GL/GLU code
> (presumably these are C++ libraries). I would expect the X libraries to
> be C? but is there any trick to knowing which are C and which are C++?

 	The other option would be to upgrade to NetBSD-3, which ships
 	with gcc-3.3.3
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