Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:15:28 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/src/devices/grodvi Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/src/devices/grohtml Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/src/devices/grolbp Makefile sr Message-ID: <20020411051528.8663638FD@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20020410180443.D84993@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"David O'Brien" wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:48:21PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 07:10:29PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:20:40PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > > > Please commit this as it does improve things. As Peter mentioned it
> > > > > would be nice to add the libstdc++ dependancy also. But even w/o tha
t,
> > > > > this patch is a help.
> > > >
> > > > No, do what Max Khon suggested. Use PROG_CXX like NetBSD does.
> > >
> > > Why can't we do both? If we can make PROG=foo do the right thing in the
> > > common case we should make it do so.
> >
> > The common case is all C. That already works. If you do both, you
> > break the uncommon case, in which you have C++ source files (or at
> > least named like them) but want C linkage. You cannot use PROG=
> > anymore. This can only lead to a third one PROG_C, which is almost
> > exactly like PROG. This is confusing.
> >
> > I think only PROG_CXX is better. This automaticly means that PROG
> > is for C. Always...
>
> There is a patch that implements PROG= such that we can remove the
> explicit linkage of libstdc++. Unless someone writes and commits the
> PROG_CXX, we have no better option than to commit ru's patch.
It is not "no better option than to commit ..." - nothing is broken.
I have a PROG_CXX patch already FWIW.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
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