On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:58:34PM -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > > Aha. I have this error under Solaris 10. I tracked it down to gmake auto- > > > generating dependency files (as it is supposed to do) and using g++ > > > specific > > > command options. I'm not sure if this is an ICU bug. (the bug being > > > assuming > > > g++ too early) > > > > Are you configuring parrot with --cxx=CC ? That ought to keep icu > > from trying options specific to g++. > > No. > > But if Configure.pl knows that my cc is not gcc, should the Solaris hints > file be defaulting cxx to CC, if cxx is not specified on the command line?
Ideally, Configure.pl should be probing for and testing for a suitable c++ compiler (and asking interactively, if appropriate). It doesn't do that now. Failing that, then, yes, the solaris hints file ought to kick in and do the right thing. -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]