On 18 April 2012 17:06, Oleg Smolsky wrote: > On 2012-04-17 18:21, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >>> >>> So, is there a way to build gcc and force a bump in the .so version? This >>> way I could keep environments completely distinct when using shared libs >>> (the issue goes away when statically linking the runtime) >> >> Using --enable-symvers=gnu-versioned-namespace will bump the soname >> (as well as moving all entities in namespace std to the inline >> namespace std::__v7) > > Great, thank you Jonathan. This option bumped up libstdc++.so.7 but not > libgcc_s.so.1. While it is an adequate fix for the issue in hand, I still > have to take libgcc's compatibility on faith... > > Is there a way to bump up its version too? No, and I don't know of any incompatibilities that have ever happened in libgcc, it's very stable. If you really don't trust that then I suggest you don't tell ldconfig to use your newer libraries.