[tex-live] TL2008's otftotfm has some old shared libs dependencies.

[Vasile Gaburici]

I am the packager of lcdf-typetools in Fedora :) Well, the package is
still pending review because it was orphaned by the previous
maintainer a while back...

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:51 PM, George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>
>>    the question is *why* is it linked against libstdc++.so.5?
>>
>> Because we did not have a chance to fix the autotools stuff to use
>> cxx-runtime-hack for lcdf-typetools.  Hopefully for next time we will.
>
> I think the OP would have preferred that a current version of lcdf-typetools
> be linked (dynamically) against a current libstdc++, so was not
> looking for "cxx-runtime-hack".  Maybe the best strategy for the OP is
> to file a bug with
> the distro (Fedora 9) against lcdf-typetools so that when TeX Live is
> packaged it uses the version he needs.
>
> --
> George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
>
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