Neil Parker wrote:

> More serious explanation:  Obviously you're trying to compile a C++ program.
> C++ isn't my main programming language, so I'm not very familiar with its
> evolution, but it HAS evolved in the not-too-distant past, and part of that
> evolution has been changes in the standard headers files.  Where the
> previous generation of C++ programs would have said (for example),
> 
>      #include <iostream.h>
> 
> apparently newer, hipper, cooler programs are supposed to say,
> 
>      #include <iostream>
> 
> So what you have is a piece of software that uses the older no-longer-in-
> style headers, and the compiler is trying to encourage the program author
> to switch to the newer style.

Ditto.

The newer, hipper, cooler include files were ratified in ANSI Standard
C++ in 1997.  Not that that helps you.

> As for what you should do to fix it, probably nothing.  It's only a
> warning, and not a particularly severe one.  Just ignore it, and you should
> still get a working executable.

Ditto.  If you're *NOT* able to build something because of these
warnings, it may be that one of the makefiles has set g++'s -Werror
flag.  Find that flag and destroy it.  (But only if the builds are
failing.)

-- 
Bob Miller                              K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
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