Re: Errors on x86_64 (broken c++ headers?)

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 10:03 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> >
> >> ...
> >> So, the errors appear to be caused by the c++ header files. How is it 
> >> possible that the header files are broken on one arch and not 
> >> another? Any other insights into what might have caused this and how 
> >> to fix it?
> >
> > There's something weird about mach and C++, I've seen this and some 
> > other weirdness just recently myself. The above can be worked around 
> > by setting
> > a suitable CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/c++ ... before %configure.
> >
> > Another oddity I found is that for Wine to build within mach I had to use
> > LDFLAGS="-lstdc++" %configure - which doesn't make any sense to me 
> > either.
> 
> Thanks for the tips.
Sorry, these are work-arounds to bugs. They should be inacceptable to be
added to rpm specs.

g++ is supposed to find its internal headers and libraries without any
manual assistance.

>  So, this is a bug in mach then? 
Dunno.

> Why only on x86_64?
Probably multilibs.

> I'd like to get this thing to build finally, so I'm inclined to add this 
> change to configure and submit a rebuild. However, it seems wrong to 
> have to change the spec file because of a bug in something external.
It doesn't seem wrong, it is wrong!

Ralf