On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:21:39PM +0200, Alaa The Great wrote...... > AFAIK GCC 2.95 doesn't have the ios_base namespace , you'll have to > use ios instead. > > however boolalpha is not implemented in 2.95, so you'll have install > g++-3.2 (only in testing I believe). > > if you plan on learning C++ I recommend you use 3.2, it is more > standard compliant and will give you more verbose warnings and errors. > but please note that there is not binary compatibility between > C++ code compiled using different versions of GCC so if you use GCC > 3.2 you won't be able to link against C++ libraries provided by debian > (like QT for instance). > > what I do is have the two versions installed, I use 2.95 for compiling > any software I download and 3.2 for my own code.
First, thanks much for your response. I'm running testing, so I apt-get'd g++-3.2 just now with no problem and tested out boolalpha, and presto, it worked! Thanks. Second, question about how to best set up the dual compilers: Like you, I'll use 2.95 to compile downloaded software, and 3.2 for stuff I write. Do you change the symlink in /usr/bin depending upon what you are doing? Is there a better way such that you won't forget to change that symlink cause I know sooner or later I'll forget. When I compile my own stuff, I use qmake. So it's easy enough for me to have qmake.conf point to 3.2. Is there debian package software that uses qmake? If not, then I can leave my symlink in /usr/bin pointing towards 2.95 and just change the pointer in my qmake.conf. Thanks again Kevin -- Kevin Coyner mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key: 1024D/8CE11941
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