Implications of tighter integration of libg++

[Jason Merrill]

>>>>> Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:

>> It is desirable to place libraries compiled against and dependent upon
>> a given version of g++, and their related header files, into the
>> compiler's lib and include directory.  Thus, I actually believe that
>> something akin to the above should be the default.  Someone else
>> believed this at one time given the comments in gcc/Makefile.in:

> With the stabilizaton of the C++ language and its associated runtime
> libraries I wonder if this will be all that useful.

> I kinda get the feeling that we'll start seeing releases that are
> compatable at both the header file level and at the link level in the
> near future.

Perhaps, but they will be different all the same, and it makes sense to use
versions that have been tested together.

On the other hand, using a different --prefix for different releases will
accomplish the same result.

Jason