Re: gcc 2.95.* support

[David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM]

Hi Berin,

Weird, the using declarations broke 2.95.3?  Thanks for catching that!

I think we should still support those versions, but as you said, it will
require some ugly stuff.  What did you have in mind?

By the way, I just realized there's a thread-safety bug in the new Xerces
wrapper.  I'm thinking maybe we can just declare it not thread-safe rather
than fix the problem.  I'm not sure how valuable that "feature" is any way.
What do you think?

Dave



                                                                                       
                                                 
                      Berin Lautenbach                                                 
                                                 
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David,

What's the feeling on support for 2.95.3/4 in 1.5?  I've just checked in
a change to the GCC include file to disable "using" declerations for gcc
< 3 as this appears to break the XPath Function headers.  (Now compiles
again!)

However there is still the problem in the Makefile which is going to be
interesting to work around.  (Although we can do something fancy in
runConfigure if we have to as a short term fix - ugly.)

Cheers,
    Berin