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)



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