On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 18:58 +0700, Doug Scott wrote: > Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > We'll have lot of "fun" because of this. > > > > gtkmm is now allowed as a dependency. > Ah, I can feel the pain now... I really really hate C++
+many > I suppose we have to decide if we build Sun Studio and/or g++ libs. In another thread about inkscape and its dependence on g++, [1] we agreed that the best way is to ship 2 variants of the libs and that the g++ variant would go into /usr/gnu. An ARC fast track will be needed to allow this particular use of /usr/gnu. > Some apps work fine with Sun Studio, but the majority seem to be g++ > specific, > and take substantial effort to port. Therefore I would probably lean > towards building both > Sun Studio and g++ libs. Yuck. Now if only the Sun Studio guys could get > CC more g++ friendly :) In the same thread, Steven Clamage says [2]: > But I'll turn the question around. We are currently implementing the > g++ ABI as on option in a future release of Sun C++. The g++ ABI is > an interesting challenge: there are so many to choose from. :-) Our > intent is to allow Sun compiler users to link in code created by g++, > as well as to compile source code using g++ extensions. We had hoped > to have these features ready for the initial release of Sun Studio 12, > but the job turned out to be bigger than even our pessimistic > estimates. Laca [1]http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=26260&tstart=60 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=26331&tstart=30 [2]http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=102775#102775)
