On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 10:14:23PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > There seem to be (at least) four files not installed in the > > ../include/g++ directory that is produced by egcs that _are_ part of the > > GNU g++ includes, namely > > > > Regex.h Pix.h String.h SLList.h > > > > Why is this, and can anyone suggest the most elegant method for making > > these absent includes available if one is compiling source that needs > > them? > > > > I would gladly be pointed in the direction of any egcs documentation > > that would help clear up my chronic confusion here.
See /usr/doc/g++/README.Debian ; suggestions for improvement are welcome. > I think this are old libg++ headers. libg++ is obsolete, don't use it if > you can help it. Yes. Basically, just about all the functionality that was in the GNU extensions is now available in the standard C++ (template) library (and thus can be ported to non-GNU systems). libg++ (which nowadays refers to then GNU extensions exclusively) is no longer maintained upstream. > There was a rumor about a libg++ dev package for eg++ in hamm but I'm not > sure what came of it. I don't spread rumours without a significant amount of truth in them :-) As of egcs 1.0.3-0.2 (8 May), libg++ packages for hamm are available: libg++2.8 and libg++2.8-dev . HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
