>>This is GCC on Gentoo: gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4
>>3.2.3-r4, propolice).
>
>
> Since the ICU static libs (".a"s) have C++ inside, we need to link with
> a C++-aware linking. Try setting:
>
> link => 'c++'
>
> in config/init/hints/linux.pl and see if that fixes it.
Yeah, if one has a mix of C and C++ object files linking them together
with the C++ compiler is usually a good bet, the C compiler (or the bare
ld) might not know what and how to link in to get the vtables straight.
I had to set link => 'cxx' in Tru64.
