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From:
Andy Dougherty
Date:
March 28, 2007 09:25
Subject:
Re: g++ on FreeBSD
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.62.0703281223360.11756@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Andrew Dougherty wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> > But if I use g++ as my C compiler:
> > 
> > d_dlerror='undef'
> > d_strerrm='((e)<0||(e)>=sys_nerr?"unknown":sys_errlist[e])'
> > d_strerror='undef'
> > d_strerror_r='undef'
> > d_syserrlst='define'
> > i_neterrno='undef'
> > strerror_r_proto='0'
> > 
> > mmm. Houston, we have a problem.
> 
> Ok.  This is what I was expecting, though I don't understand it.  I wonder 
> why we're not seeing strerror() with g++?  More broadly, are there lots of 
> other differences between the gcc and g++ config.sh files?  (Especially 
> the d_* defines.)

Poking about in the hints files a bit, I think the following might help.  
We should probably eventually incorporate this more carefully in 
Configure's usenm.U unit, but not today.

diff -u perl-current/hints/freebsd.sh perl-andy/hints/freebsd.sh
--- perl-current/hints/freebsd.sh	2007-03-08 06:22:17.000000000 -0500
+++ perl-andy/hints/freebsd.sh	2007-03-28 11:42:31.000000000 -0400
@@ -138,11 +138,22 @@
 *)
 	ccflags="${ccflags} -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H"
 	if /usr/bin/file -L /usr/lib/libc.so | /usr/bin/grep -vq "not stripped" ; then
-	    usenm=false
+	    # Respect a command-line override
+	    test -z "$usenm" && usenm=false
 	fi
         ;;
 esac
 
+
+# If we are using g++ we must use nm and force ourselves to use
+# the /usr/lib/libc.a because the symbol scanning tricks of 
+# Configure will crash and burn horribly.
+case "$cc" in
+*g++*) usenm=true
+       libc='/usr/lib/libc.a'
+       ;;
+esac
+
 cat <<'EOM' >&4
 
 Some users have reported that Configure halts when testing for


-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafayette.edu

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