How do I compile libg++ for egcs?

[Christian Joensson FOA 72 <chj at lin dot foa dot se>]

I have a Red Hat Linux 5.2/Intel system with gcc-2.7.2.3-14 and egcs-1.0.3a-14 
installed. I would like to use the well implemented pseudo random numbers and 
I once did that using libg++'s RNG.

Now, I find that you have a "non-maintained" src distrib of libg++ made to 
work with egcs as I understand it, cf. 

ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/infrastructure/libg++-2.8.1.2a-19981218.tar.gz

and here's my question. How can I compile it? 

Naively, I unpacked the distrib and went down the libg++ dir. There, I noticed 
that there was no configure file but a configure.in was available. Thus, I ran 
autoconf and to my surprise the "generated" configure file was empty.

I then remembered seeing that one's supposed to unpack the distrib under the 
egcs src tree and then, in one sweep, configure and build both egcs-1.* and 
libg++-2.8.*. OK, that's fine, of course, but I would actually like to be able 
to build libg++ without having to unpack and configure the egcs parts. Can I 
actually configure and build libg++ "standalone"?

Oh, as a way out, perhaps there's a newer c++ implementation out there that 
provides similar functionality. If you do know of such freely available, and 
re-distributable packages, please enlighten me.

TIA,


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Christian Jönsson                                   chj@lin.foa.se
Sweden's Defence Research Establishment
Dep't of Communication Systems                      FOA 72