[tex-live] c++ (was: New binaries (and problems:))

Thomas Esser te at dbs.uni-hannover.de
Fri May 23 20:33:27 CEST 2003


> On 2003-05-23 13:01:59 -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
> > Presumably there is C++ code somewhere now.  We need to track it down
> > and remove it (if possible), or compile statically, or include the
> > shared libs on the CD (and install them ... ugh ...).
> 
> It's in pdftex and it can not be removed (unless you want to
> switch to another pdf parser). There is a hack from Thomas to
> link only the libstdc++ dynamically.

Yes, but that works only:
  - with gcc 2.x
  - if your gcc 2.x has the static version of the C++ runtime

In all other cases, my hack will fail.

Thomas


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