Re: cxx on woody

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org> writes:

> On 2 Nov 2000, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> 
> > I tried to install Compaq cxx on woody, but encountered this problem:
> >  
> > /usr/bin/ld: unknown demangling style `compaq'collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > Aborting
> 
> I ran into this too, but haven't had the chance to look into it further
> yet.
> 
> > Didn't we have compaq demangler support in binutils at some time? (I'm
> > using 2.10.0.27-0.cvs20001011.2). Do I now have to use the binutils
> > provided with cxx (I'd rather not do that), or would downgrading
> > binutils help?
> 
> Hmmm...not sure.  I'll look into it, but I think I know what happened to
> the compaq demangler support (might've fallen out of the package when I
> recently switched from H.J. Lu's sources to the CVS...I don't think the
> demangler support was committed to the main tree).

Hmm, I've downgraded to potato binutils, and it works again. Potato ld
has an option

  --style {gnu,lucid,arm,hp,edg,gnat,compaq}
                              Set demangling style

while woody ld doesn't even have --style...

	Falk