From owner-cvs-all Wed Apr 10 22:15:36 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wemm.org (12-232-135-171.client.attbi.com [12.232.135.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B3D37B404; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:15:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3B5FRQ26817; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:15:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8663638FD; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:15:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , Ruslan Ermilov , 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 In-Reply-To: <20020410180443.D84993@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:15:28 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020411051528.8663638FD@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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 "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message