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Re: [platform-swt-dev] [ANN] Eclipse SWT/Fox plugin available (pre-alpha)

> 
> >P.S. Users of older Linux distributions (pre gcc 3.2) may encounter
> >problems running SWT/Fox, because at the moment it is not statically
> >linked with libc++. 
> 
> I'm curious: why should that be a problem? AFAIK every lib on 
> debian is *not* statically linked...
> 

Because of the C++ ABI changes from 2.9x to 3.0 to 3.1 to 3.2.  You can't
move forward or backward and have compatibility between those versions.  So any
app/lib/... must be built with exactly the same version.  Hopefully past 3.2 
it will remain stable.

    chris

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