Hi, I am stunningly confused about the whole c and c++ suite thing that's going on (I'm still in HAMM - it's *not * the __register_frame_info stuff!).
Here's my story and a plea for a clear explanation of what's what and what I need to compile kernels, c++ toolkits and stuff. Over the weekend, I downlaoded V 1.20 onto /usr/local/. I tried compiling it and after finding out that I needed all the OpenGl stuff and isntalling that to (V. annoying by the way - had even to edit some of the source code to get rid of those probelms), the compile seemed like it would work. But then I got the make error message: In vbglcnv.h:51:Invalid storage class specifiers decalared in friend functions I didn't have a clue what this meant even after viewing the two friend functions alluded to. Being naive enough to try anything, and having heard of all sorts of problems with egcs and g++, I decided to scrap g++2.8 and put g++2.7.2 on. (I had egcs 2.90.29, dated 19980515). Well, of course no end of conflicts came up (had to remove libdbm++ and stuff), and further more I had to leave some 2.8 thing installed (libg++2.8? libstdc++2.8? libstdc++2.8-dev?libg++2.8-dev? - can't remember as at the time I was in a frenzy of confusion). Eventually I got the downgrade done, and of course the makefile for v complained about there being no g++, so I changed the definition in the file to g++272, and hallelujah! the thing worked. Phew. What a marathon that was and how pleased i was myself to have got the v library compiled after *so many* problems. Back in the old days, with a 1.2.13 kernel and v 1.14, it was easy! So, please help me - why couldn't egcs g++ compile v? Is that version (like some others it would seem...) broken? Or is v using some non-standard c++ shit that breaks on 'modern' compilers? I suspect egcs I am afraid but understand nothing. Would upgrading to the version referred to in the __register_frame_info FAQ work or what (I'm on a HAMM systen still - it took me 4 goes to get a successful upgrade from bo to that, so I'm not ready to slink it yet). Please help. I love linux, and debian is the dist. I've chosen (i'm happy with that), but it just seems there is so much undocumented stuff that can hgo wrong and it takes a great mental effort and lateral thinking to get the stuff i want working! Sorry for the ramble - if you've got this far thanks, Martin ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
