Re: Any experience with Compaq cxx?

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org>]

On Tue, 9 May 2000, David van Leeuwen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've tried to install  compaq's cxx compiler (6.3.6.10) as an 
> alternative for g++, because i need speed in runtime. 
> 
> I used cxx-6.3.6.10-12.alpha.rpm from Compaq's website, `alien'd it, 
> and `dpkg --install'd it.  Fine.  Hand-edited comp.config. 
> 
> Problem is that Compaq's loader wants `--style compaq' option, but 
> Debian's binutils 2.9.5.0.31 does not support that. 
> 
> Compaq delivers their own patch to binutils, they versioned it 
> 2.9.1.0.23 (for redhat 6.1), but i don't want to spoil 
> Debian's structure (compete with their binutils).  
> 
> Any ideas/experience in this field?

Please update your binutils to the latest in frozen (2.9.5.0.37-1).  It
fixes this condition (demangler is table-driven).

Thanks :-)
C (who happens to be the binutils maintainer)