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authorGeorge Kiagiadakis <george.kiagiadakis@collabora.co.uk>2011-01-23 14:13:07 +0200
committerGeorge Kiagiadakis <george.kiagiadakis@collabora.co.uk>2011-01-23 14:13:07 +0200
commita9753944159a0d24d71c067ffa973c55dff03888 (patch)
tree3aaa5dbc4879c0456f6ad10bffa3547a13423e43
parentb1a555a526533d31063bf46b9e4c6045ea3b3461 (diff)
Add a note about the libstdc++ bug.
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@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ QtGStreamer requires the following software to be installed in order to build:
* Flex <http://flex.sourceforge.net/>
* Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
+In addition, if gcc is used as the compiler, libstdc++ version 4.5 or later is
+required at runtime. This is due to a bug in earlier versions of libstdc++ that
+sometimes makes dynamic_cast fail under conditions where it should not.
+
2.2 Compiler
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