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Recent GNU/Linux glibc required?

April 26, 2017glibc GNU linux recent

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When running on GNU/Linux, libstdc++ 3.2.1 (shared library version 5.0.1) and later uses localization and formatting code from the system C library (glibc) version 2.2.5. That version of glibc is over a year old and contains necessary bugfixes. Many GNU/Linux distros make glibc version 2.3.x available now. The guideline is simple: the more recent the C++ library, the more recent the C library. (This is also documented in the main GCC installation instructions.