Thank you Phil. So the only way to go around this is to use libstdc++3 and gcc3 or use 2.90.8 which may or may not be completely standard conforming.
Thanks Ranjan -----Original Message----- From: Phil Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 2:16 PM To: Ranjan Parthasarathy Cc: 'debian-gcc@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: libstdc++-2.10-dev issue On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:10:09PM -0800, Ranjan Parthasarathy wrote: > Hi > > I am using a woody system and using the 2.95.4 version of the GNU compiler. > The standard c++ library (2.10) > seems to miss out on some essential headers that are required as per > standard c++ compliance and this is causing The 2.* library (libstdc++ version 2) predates the C++ standard. It is very noncompliant. It is also unmaintained. > Particularly ios_base is not defined. I also tried with the 2.90.8 version > of the standard C++ library > from FSF and the patches for gcc-2.95.3 upwards and they seem OK. from what > I could figure out, > some of the headers were ommited in the release of 2.10 release ( > usr/include/g++3/std/bits). 2.90.* are early transitional snapshots of libstdc++ version 3. It is a complete rewrite, and has nothing to do with 2.10. The 2.* libraries are noncompliant. The 2.* compilers are noncompliant. Also, nobody has been working on them for years. Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002
