Re: Compiling w/o gcc?

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:28:17PM -0500, David A. Greene wrote:
> Once concern I have is the interaction with libsupc++.  These routines
> are provided by our vendor.  Because of the conflict, I've disabled
> building libsupc++ (through an --enable-cxxruntime configure option
> which defaults to libsupc++, similar to the way --enable-cstdio
> works).

I can think of a few situations where other people could use this.
Can you post the diff, or just send it to me?  I'd like to add this to
the library configury.


> Obviously this is probably somewhat dangerous.  Are there
> any known pitfalls with doing this?  It seems to me that as long as
> I have headers that define the necessary bits (I do, from our vendor),
> it should be ok to compile libstdc++ with those and link with the
> vendor's runtime library.

Exception handling might be very very funky.  Unless your vendor follows
the same spec (which was designed to be vendor-neutral).


Phil

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