Re: gcc and egcs
On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Greg Starkes wrote:
>
> > Last night I was trying to compile to programs that were written in c++
> > (wmcdplay & wmmixer). The installation instructions said to run xmkmf,
> > then make. When I did this xmkmf set CXX=c++ and CC=gcc. At this point I
> > should mention that I did NOT have egcs installed on my system, so c++ did
> > not exist, and when I changed the Makefile so that CXX=gcc, gcc
> > complained. (I can't remember the exact error, and I am away from my
> > machine.)
>
> The problem is that gcc is an ANSI C compiler, and you wanted to compile a
> C++ program. I think that If you have just changed gcc to g++ ( the GNU
> C++ compiler) everything would have worked.
I had no problem compiling this under bo...
The problem seems to be with xmkmf finding the wrong things...
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Greg Starkes, Computing & Communications, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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