Ben Hearsum delivers! As noted in my previous blog, we were having problems with the libstdc++5 dependancy, and Ben has provided some answers…
To paraphrase Ben (which actually means to copy/paste his answer) :
Firefox 2 build machines are pretty old — Redhat EL/AS3 (Taroon) — which was apparently released in October of 2003. So, that’s the reason. We won’t be changing our build machines for Fx2, so it will continue to be that way.
However, Firefox 3 uses CentOS5 — which is much more recent. ldd on that shows that it’s using libstdc++.so.6, so, yay.
So although we still have some work to do on the “how” to fix the problem, its nice to know the “why”. Thanks again Ben.
