Re: C++ problems with RC1

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=) writes:
> > The autoconf test for C++ doesn't work with standard-enforcing
> > compilers....
>
> Exactly what part of it doesn't work? AFAICT, the first test is
> just to see if
> #include <string>
> succeeds, and if that works then we do not try the section you seem
> to be blaming. So it looks to me like a compiler that conforms
> to the C++-standard-of-the-month should work fine: both
> HAVE_CXX_STRING_HEADER and HAVE_NAMESPACE_STD should become set.
> What are you seeing?

I saw it failing... however, the cause for this failing was the use of
multiline literals (cc_version). The compilers warns about this being
deprecated, and autoconf thinks this means the test failed. See the other
patch I posted yesterday.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.