libstdc++

[Dave Horsfall]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017, Adam Weinberger wrote:

> > I want to install "aspell", and it wants "libstdc++.so.6".  All I can 
> > find under ports is /usr/ports/lang/libstdc++_stldoc_4.2.2, which 
> > seems to be documentation only.  Is the port for the library itself 
> > available, to make "aspell" happy?  Or is it one of those silly GNU 
> > things are aren't allowed to be distributed under another licence?
> 
> You said in a prior message that you'd put 9.x libraries into your 
> system. That's quite far from being a supported operation and it will 
> lead to failures.

Not all of them, no; only the ones needed to support stuff like Alpine 
which won't build on 10.3 due to its schizophrenic view of OpenSSL 
(maintainer contacted, but no reply); I explained this in another thread.

> Assuming that you have installed everything from packages, you can 
> upgrade and reinstall all of them with "pkg upgrade -f". Remove all 
> those 9.x libraries that you installed and run that command.

I prefer to install from ports, to get the options I want rather than 
someone else's opinion of what I might want...

> If you're getting packages with the wrong ABI, have you changed anything 
> in /etc/pkg/ or /usr/local/etc/pkg/?

Haven't touched them, because I don't know what they are...

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