[tex-live] dynamic linking on linux-i386

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Fri Mar 2 10:57:11 CET 2007


2007/3/2, Florin Oprina <florin.oprina at gmail.com>:
> I'm using the 20070212 texlive disk.
> I noticed that the programs in i386-linux are dynamically
linked.

Yes and no (see below).

> This can cause some troubles on certain systems.

Indeed.

> For instance lcdf-typetools refused to work on my computer because I
> have a newer version of libstdc++ (gcc 4.1.1). Recompiling it

In fact libstdc++ should always be linked statically because of these
problems; this was solved for pdftex some years ago. Seems nobody
checked the lcdf-typetools, which have the same problem.

Best
   Martin


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