Re: RFC: The new, improved README / FAQ file

[Bowie Owens <bowie owens csiro au>]

Paul Drain wrote:

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> > Also, I like the section about GCC 2.95 problems. But, what I never 
> > understood: Is there any way to build the current C++ bindings with the 
> > old GCC? Is this sane at all? I never filed bugs against that, as I felt 
> > it cannot be done. So I just moved the bindings/*mm* packages to broken 
> > and left dasher alone.
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> I've only ever built bindings against GCC 3.2 or higher (i've got no
> systems that need them with an older version of GCC)
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> I see no reason why it _shouldn't_ work, but someone more authoritative
> than me on the list should answer that. 
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The problem is that GCC 2.95 has lots of bugs relating to advanced use 
of templates, multiple inheritance, and RTTI. It is possible to rewrite 
the code to work around these bugs. But it takes a lot of effort and the 
affect on the code is not necessarily desirable. So *mm* maintainers are 
not inclined to do much about "this doesn't compile with GCC 2.95" bugs 
unless the reporter is prepared to help a lot. That is the impression 
I've gotten from the gtkmm and gnomemm lists and is my position as 
maintainer of C++ ORBit2 bindings.

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