Re: [PATCH] 2nd patch Re: [Jade/OpenJade] g++ 2.95 C++ portabilit y problems

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthias Clasen <clasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> All my attempts to use -frepo have failed so far. Either I get undefined
> symbol errors when linking the final apps or duplicate definition errors
> when linking the libs. 
> 
> The gcc manual even contains the following:
> 
>     Be warned,
>     however, that this may cause conflicts if multiple libraries try
>     to provide the same instantiations.  For greater control, use
>     explicit instantiation as described in the next option.
> 
> Thus I guess we're better off to stay with (suitably hacked) _inst files.

Ugh.  Ok.  Note that my changes aren't really suitable, i.e., thing
will break again with g++ 2.96 and 3.0 etc.  I think we wanna change
the test to check for either gcc >= 2.95 or else base it on GNUlibc
version??

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