I got the program to compile a few hours after your g++
recommendation. I was using gcc. g++ did the trick.
I am pretty sure I sent a message thanking you and Ray. If not....
thanks.
So what are "environment variables"?? Is this where you customize
linux???
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 3/4/00, 4:20:10 PM, Greg Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding
Re: gcc and compiling errors.:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 03:52:39PM -0700, John Starkey wrote:
> > > It shouldn't make a differnce. g++ keeps header files in
> > > /usr/include/g++-<1 or 2 or 3>/
> > >
> > > and the entire non-comment section of iostream
> > > is
> > >
> > > #ifndef __IOSTREAM__
> > > #define __IOSTREAM__
> > > #include <iostream.h>
> > > #endif
> >
> > So all it's doing is referring it to iostream.h??
> >
> > Why did that get started. That many people forgetting the h???
> >
> Probably because it is in the standard. The actual ANSI
> standard costs a lot of money, but you can look at the
> 1996 working papers which are pretty close at:
> http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~musser/ap/c++std/cd2/
> Specifically
>
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~musser/ap/c++std/cd2/lib-iostreams.html#lib.iost
ream.objects
> which states that the header <iostream>(no h) will give you such
> and so....
> I would guess this didn't get dropped when they made the ANSI
> standard, but I'm not certain here (I'll find out if you'll buy
> me a copy :-) ).
> > > Which is a header trick that seems to be more common to c++, that
makes
> > > the file empty if it's already been included. (Think headers that
include
> > > headers).
> > > But it still seems kind of odd to me, since iostream.h already
> > > wraps itself in _IOSTREAM_H . Maybe ANSI c++ says you should be able
> > > to do #ifdef __IOSTREAM__ to check for iostream.
> >
> > I keep hearing about wrappers in the linux environ. What is the
definition??
> >
> Wrappers are often scripts that set up environment variables
> and find locations of files, so that when the actual program
> runs, it can find what it neeeds. The debian adobe acrobat
> is like this, so is Star Office. ~/Office/bin/soffice is a shell
> script. I can't think of another off the top of my head.
> I was just saying that it wraps itself is #ifndef's to prevent
> multiple inclusion.
>
> Again, have you gotten your C++ program to compile?
> have fun,
> greg
> --
> this is not here
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