Re: gcc broken?
On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 12:00:00AM -0400, timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu wrote:
> Hi. My "dpkg -S cc1plus" returns that it is owned by g++, (Of which I have
> version 2.90.28-0.1. ), and that it lives in
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.90.28/ .... I don't have any of the others
> though.
> ("apt-get install g++272" says it can't find a package with that name. :(.)
> Thanks for noticing the reply to addr. :).
>
> Any ideas what to do now?
You can't use gcc to compile C++; you must use g++. This is because
gcc is standard GNU 2.7.2.3, while g++ is egcs 2.90.28. The gcc frontend
does not know how to compile C++ any more; you must call the g++ frontend
directly.
This is a problem with some makefiles which assumed that gcc could
compile C++. There are separate Make parameters for C++ though --
CXX=g++ or CCC=g++. (GNU make uses one, Sun's uses the other and
I can't remember which is which.) There are CXXFLAGS or something
similar to go with it. Also note that you can't usually use gcc
to do the linking either; use g++.
Hamish
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