[PLUG] RHEL/CENTOS/SL 5x, Firefox 4 and libstdc++
Keith Lofstrom
keithl at kl-ic.com
Sat Mar 26 08:52:23 UTC 2011
The firefox developers, in their reciprocally infinite wisdom,
are pushing Firefox 4, which requires libstdc++.so.6 with
GLIBCXX_3.4.9 . The available libstdc++.i386 0:4.1.2-50.el5
RPM for RHEL 5x, CENTOS 5x, and SL 5x contains only GLIBCXX_3.4.8 .
You can read more about it here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2075033
The hack mentioned (installing a newer version of libstdc++ in
the firefox4 directory) doesn't seem very upgradable. It is
also not complete - in the binary directory (I've put mine at
/opt/firefox) you not only need to add the libstdc++.so.6.0.10,
you also must softlink it to libstdc++.so.6 so firefox can see
it. Firefox 4 also can't find my firefox 3.6x passwords,
customizations, etc. Back to 3.6.16 for now, until I figure
out how to port those.
3.6.15 currently launches a security nag box to upgrade to 3.6.16,
but that gets redirected to 4.0 at the firefox website.
3.6.16 is hidden here:
/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.16/linux-i686/en-US/
Given the way they've structured things, there may not be a
3.6.17 and subsequent security upgrades. I realize that some
people want the latest and greatest thing. However, they are
not entitled to make that decision for others. Perhaps
everything they own that is older than 3 years should be
confiscated, giving them a chance to test their philosophy
more generally.
Grump, growl.
Keith
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