On Saturday 09 June 2007 13:02:00 Marko Kocić wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> > The reason is as you say that dev-java/sun-jdk:1.6 is a binary package
> > that isn't ABI compatible with libstdc++.so.6 (from gcc-4.x). And as we
> > don't have the source we cannot fix that with revdep-rebuild.
>
> But I'm already running sun-jdk on my machine that I manually
> downloaded and installed from the sun site, although I don't have
> libstdc++ installed.
> One thing I don't understand is why do I need libstdc++ when using
> portage version?

Do you mean you are already running sun-jdk:1.6 without an ABI compatible 
version of libstdc++ ? In that case I wouldn't be surprised if it 
occasionally crashes. If you meant 1.4 or 1.5 then they simply don't seem to 
use the c++ standard library...

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Bo Andresen