Re: export CC=g++ ; make configure ; make

["Gabriel Dos Reis" <gdr at acm dot org>]

Michael Elizabeth Chastain:
> Mark Mitchell wrote:
>> Nobody seemed to object with making modifications to the source so that
>> it could be compiled with a C++ compiler, which is a first step in any
>> event, so I think people should feel free to proceed with that.
>
> I have an opinion about whether to use C++ in gcc, but I thought it
> would be more interesting to just try it and see what happens.
>
> I grabbed a recent CVS version of gcc HEAD and did:
>
>   export CC=g++
>   ./configure
>   make bootstrap
>
> This is on native i686-pc-linux-gnu, red hat enterprise linux 3.
> The bootstrap compiler is g++ 3.2.3-34-rh.
>
> It blew up here:
>
> g++ -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -I. -I./../include  -W -Wall -Wtraditional
> -pedantic ./regex.c -o regex.o
> regex.c:2316: `pattern' was not declared in this scope
> regex.c:2316: `size' was not declared in this scope
> regex.c:2316: `syntax' was not declared in this scope
> regex.c:2316: `bufp' was not declared in this scope
> regex.c:2317: `reg_errcode_t byte_regex_compile' redeclared as different
> kind
>    of symbol
> regex.c:414: previous declaration of `reg_errcode_t
> byte_regex_compile(const
>    char*, unsigned int, long unsigned int, re_pattern_buffer*)'


And the compiler is working ? :-)

Thanks for these data.  I hope to be in a position -- in a few
days -- to produce patches to gradually make this happen, unless
Paolo Bonzini beats me at it (and I won't complain!) :-).

-- Gaby