Re: ncurses++ will not compile with gcc 3.x

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 04:23:51PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I think it's better to turn off building ncurses++ by default
> because gcc 3.x (soon to be released) will not compile it,

is that "will not compile" for the current patches or for 5.2?

(3.x of course introduces nonstandard extensions just to make matters worse).

> and there is no easy way to fix it (ncurses++ relies on non-standard
> GNU-extensions to iostreams).
> 
> You could also check for the version number of gcc
> (if building with gcc) and only build it if it's < 3.x.
> -- 
> Felix Natter
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