>       Hello eveybody ..

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> I have Linux 0.99.6 on my system for some time now, and I only
> encountered one problem with it. The g++ compiler refuses to work
> for me. I used SLS v1.0 with the old runtime libraries and the gcc
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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> is version 2.3.3. What happens is that although it compiles normaly,
> when it comes to linking the files together, it comes up with a set
> of errors that say that _cout and ostream are not defined.

Try upgrading your shared libraries to libc.so.4.3.2 or later -
version 4.3.3 is the most recent.  Read the release notes carefully
before installing, and you should have few problems.  The libraries
are available in the /pub/linux/GCC directory on tsx-11.mit.edu.

I use g++-2.3.3 with libc.so.4.3.2 pretty extensively, and have had no
problems with it at all.

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> I desperately need some help since I have to write my thesis in c++,
> and I would like to be able to do this on my system and not on the
> university's systems.

I love it.  I can swap code between the University's sun-4 system and
my Linux box at home, and the only difference I notice is that the
Linux box goes faster.  :-)

Persevere - I can assure you that it can work, and that it's worth it!

Cheers,
 Stephen Tweedie.
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Stephen Tweedie <sct@uk.ac.ed.dcs>   (Internet: <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk>)
Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.