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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:04:43 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, 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:  <20020410180443.D84993@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020410044821.GA10113@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>; from marcel@xcllnt.net on Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 09:48:21PM -0700
References:  <20020408144719.B92702@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020408232040.459C33811@overcee.wemm.org> <20020408191029.B93005@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020410044821.GA10113@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>

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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 that,
> > > > 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.

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