How do I select a version of libstdc+ to link against?

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 27 September 2011 11:47, David Aldrich wrote:
>> For the third or fourth time, have you use ldd to see which library is being
>> used by the runtime linker?  I am positive that will show you it's using the
>> standard system libstdc++ in somewhere such as /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.x.x
>
> My apologies, it is linking to:
>
> /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.13

Which is the library from gcc-4.4.2, mystery solved.