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From: "Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:21:57 +0300
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Subject: Re: c++ linking faq
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Date sent:      	Sat, 29 Aug 1998 11:33:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:           	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:        	Re: c++ linking faq

> 
> > > Can we just change gcc to always try to link in the stdc++ library if
> > > it's installed?  I'm getting sick of that issue popping up on the
> > > newsgroup. 
> > 
> > It's possible with rather simple editting specs file but then another 
> > problem will appear if somebody does not want to install C++ 
> > support (libstdcxx.a is in gpp281b.zip not gcc281b.zip and as I 
> > think should be there). So I'm against such solution.
> 
> That's why I said "if it's installed".
> 

Anyway this is not universal cure as will not help with LFN related 
problems which are almost equaly frequent. I don't think that we 
should provide checks for all possible problems that poeple that
are often encountered. I think that we should avoid modifying gcc
unless really necessary (for example going into infinite loop when  
DJGPP instalation were broken were such problem that should 
have a fix, see discussions in May). 

Andris