Some Tricks and Tweaks

Programs refuse to compile after C++ compiler downgrade

If you recently downgraded from GCC 3 or 3.0.1 to a 2.96 version and you now get spurious errors compiling various packages saying things like "Cannot find cout::... or something like this, here's a possible solution.

Some Linux RPM packages don't correct the pointer for the G++ shared library after you re-installed an older version of GCC.

Quick fix: As root, type:

# cd /usr/lib
# rm -f libstdc++.so
# ln -s libstdc++.so.2.9 libstdc++.so

avifile-0.53.5 refuses to compile with gcc3

This is fixed in avifile's CVS. But, since 0.53.5 is the latest version declared as "stable", here's a patch:

avifile-0.53.5-gcc3.patch.gz