On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Delcypher <delcypher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19 October 2011 17:50, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 19 October 2011 17:48, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>>>
>>> Why? I've not heard of anyone trying to build only libstdc++ before,
>
> My reason is simply that I wanted libstdc++ with debugging symbols on
> my machine as my distro (Arch Linux) seems to strip them. It seems
> perfectly reasonable to me to want to build only libstdc++ and not the
> whole gcc project because building the whole project is a complete
> waste of time seeing as I already have the other binaries compiled on
> my system from my distribution's packages.
Does Arch Linux not offer devel and debug packages for libstdc++? I
would hope they don't just discard it.
Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, et al, offer them as a separate install, but
they are available.
$ dpkg -l | grep -i libstdc++*
ii libstdc++6 4.4.3-4ubuntu5
The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libstdc++6-4.4-dev 4.4.3-4ubuntu5
The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 (development
Jeff
