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From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
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Subject: Re: help find compiler, please.
To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 10:31:06 +0200 (MET DST)
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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