friend templates in gcc-2.8.0 & egcs-1.0.1

[Mumit Khan]

On 31 Jan 1998, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> You may use -fguiding-decls to have a backward-compatible behavior,
> but have in mind that you'll not be programming standard C++.  The
> best you can do is to use SGI STL-like compatibility macros.  Take a
> look at stl_config.h, as installed by egcs and gcc, and modify your
> code so that it will compile with both outdated compilers and
> Standard-compliant ones.
> 

-fguiding-decls, IMO, should not be recommended since then people
have more problems than they started out with (mostly standard library
related ones -- you end up with undefined externals and so on). 

Autoconf is the answer. I used the attached macro I use in aclocal.m4.

Regards, 
Mumit -- khan@xraylith.wisc.edu
http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/