Re: another compile problem, gnome-core

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> writes:
> Jarl> Trying to compile gnome-core i get this error:
> 
> Jarl> In file included from /usr/local/include/mico/naming.h:13,
> Jarl>                  from applet-lib.cc:3:
> Jarl> /usr/local/include/mico/throw.h:35: warning: `catch', `throw', and `try' are all C++ reserved words
> Jarl> /usr/local/include/mico/throw.h:35: exception handling disabled, use -fhandle-exceptions to enable.
> 
> I get this error too.  The error basically occurs because
> panel/Makefile.am no longer sets `CXX = mico-c++'.

Whoops.  My mistake.
 
> There's no ChangeLog entry for this change, but the miracle that is
> "cvs annotate" tracked it down to this change:
> 
>     revision 1.85
>     date: 1998/06/30 19:15:06;  author: harinath;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -3
>     * Makefile.am (appletsConf.sh): Don't sed in INTLLIBS.
>     * appletsConf.sh.in (APPLETS_LIBS): Remove @INTLLIBS@.
> 
>     INTLLIBS is is a build only variable.
> 
> Hari, can you tell me why this change was made?  Likewise, why was the
> CXXFLAGS definition commented out?

INTLLIBS can have the values `../intl/libintl.a' if gnome-core is built
with --with-included-gettext.  Not a meaningful value in a different
build tree.

The commented out CXX was due to my not doing a `cvs diff' before
checking in.  I'll revert this.

- Hari
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