Re: [Python-Dev] [C++-sig] GCC version compatibility

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Ludwig
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:11:56PM +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I've looked at the patch, and it looks fairly safe, so I committed it. Thanks. I did not forget my promise to look into a more comprehensive approach to the C++ build issues. But I first need to better understand the potential

Re: [Python-Dev] [C++-sig] GCC version compatibility

2005-07-17 Thread Christoph Ludwig
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 04:01:20PM +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote: On Saturday 16 July 2005 20:13, Christoph Ludwig wrote: I submitted patch #1239112 that implements the test involving two TUs for Python 2.4. I plan to work on a more comprehensive patch for Python 2.5 but that will take some

Re: [Python-Dev] [C++-sig] GCC version compatibility

2005-07-12 Thread Christoph Ludwig
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:07:56AM +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Christoph Ludwig wrote: Yes, but on ELF/Linux the default configuration should be --without-cxx in the first place. If the build instructions make it sufficiently clear that you should prefer this configuration whenever

Re: [Python-Dev] [C++-sig] GCC version compatibility

2005-07-11 Thread Christoph Ludwig
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 09:45:25AM +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Christoph Ludwig wrote: I'll describe it once more: *If* a program is compiled with the C++ compiler, is it *then* possible to still link it with the C compiler? This is the question this test tries to answer. The keyword

Re: [Python-Dev] [C++-sig] GCC version compatibility

2005-07-11 Thread Christoph Ludwig
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 09:35:33AM -0400, David Abrahams wrote: Christoph Ludwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do not claim the 2 TUs test will cover all possible scenarios. I am not even sure this decision should be left to an automated test. Because if the test breaks for some reason

Re: [Python-Dev] [C++-sig] GCC version compatibility

2005-07-09 Thread Christoph Ludwig
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:08:08AM +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: David Abrahams wrote: When I looked into this problem I saw that configure in fact builds a test executable that included an object file compiled with g++. If the link step with gcc succeeds then LINKCC is set as above, otherwise