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]

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