On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:12:53AM +0200 or thereabouts, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> | ... can be worked around by  'export CXXFLAGS=-fexceptions', './configure'.
> >
> | Not exactly nice though.
> 
> I wonder if we ever will be able to use exceptions...
> Or will we for ever need to cripple third-party libraries.

Gtkmm2 now uses exceptions, so I'll need to work around the
-fno-exceptions anyway.  However, the ANSI standard has been around
for a long time.  How many compilers do we 'support' which don't
support them?  What else don't they support that we'd like to use?




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