Dear Brian, You wrote: > This simply means that there is a disparity between the version of > libstdc++ that you linked InitSettings with versus the one that is being > found at runtime. I found softlinks libstdc++.so.6 both in /usr/lib/ and /usr/lib64/. Even after building gcc 4.2.1, they pointed to libstdc++.so.6.8, although gcc 4.2.1 provides libstdc++.so.6.9. I changed this manually. Do you think this is a definite solution, or might there be other details that i need to change by hand? At least i'm able to build some rather big computer algebra system, so, i'm rather confident that everything is alright now. Thank you very much Yours Simon