Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 10:31:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: help find compiler, please. Message-ID: <199610060831.KAA26051@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199610051633.JAA18807@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Oct 5, 96 09:33:39 am
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Don Yuniskis writes: > > It seems that Andreas Klemm said: >> On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D. writes: >>>> >>>> We have searched in vain for a C++ compiler on FreeBSD/Linux that is >>>> robust enought to be able to compile Rogue Wave class templates. >>>> g++ just isn't there yet. We did find one other compiler, and it >>>> failed also. If you know of one that will do it, let us know. >>> >>> Just out of interest, what's wrong with gcc that makes it unable to >>> compile the templates? Are you sure it's not a problem with the >>> sources? C++ is a moving target, and it's quite possible that gcc is >>> correct in not compiling them. If not, I'm sure the gcc people would >>> like to know how it breaks. >> >> FreeBSD-current now has gcc 2.7.2.1 and libg++ 2.7.2 if that might >> be of interest ... If I remember right, some people said on the >> mailinglists, that some C++ projects are only to handle with gcc-2.7.x. > > Has anyone looked into how difficult it would be to build 2.7.X on > a 2.1R machine? I'd hate to heve to upgrade *everything* just to > use a newer gcc for development work... I can't say for sure for 2.1R, but on 2.2-current it built right out of the box. That certainly wasn't the case for 2.6.3. Greg
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