From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 09:34:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA24825 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 09:34:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA24820 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 09:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA18807; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 09:33:40 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199610051633.JAA18807@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: help find compiler, please. To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 09:33:39 -0700 (MST) Cc: grog@lemis.de, barnes@biodec.wustl.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Andreas Klemm" at Oct 5, 96 01:29:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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... Thanx! --don