gregg dot drwho8 atsign gmail dot com <gregg.drwho8@gmail.com> wrote:
> It complains that its linked against the previous libcstd libraries.
> In this case the .so.5 ones.

In a lot of cases, though not all, a link
libstdc++.so.5 -> libstdc++.so.6
will do the trick.
Untill 11 Slackware only came with the .5 version of this, but Pat updated
to the .6 version which may break some older (precompiled) programs.

PS: if you really need the .5 version: it is available as
/usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.7
so make a link in one of the "standard" lib dirs to it will also work
(or adding this dir to the /etc/ld.so.conf and rerunning ldconfig).
As we've got quite a lot of "our own compilations", we've got this dir
standard in the ld.so.conf on all our systems.

> This is a freshly installed arrangement of Slackware-11.0 using the
> UMSDOS form, (zipslack) the packages were grabbed over a course of
> three days during all of last month.

As I said, the cxxlibs package _does_ contain the .so.5 version too
(and even the .so.4 one).
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