[C++-sig] GCC version compatibility

[David Abrahams]

Christoph Ludwig <cludwig at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 10:23:14AM -0500, David Abrahams wrote:
>> Christoph Ludwig <cludwig at cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> writes:
>> > I finally had the spare time to look into this problem again and submitted
>> > patch #1324762. The proposed patch implements the following:
>> 
>> <snip awesome patch>
>> 
>> Christoph, thanks so much for doing this! 
>
> You are welcome. It was pretty straight forward once I realized how the C++
> compiler is communicated from configure to distutils. But the patch has not
> been applied to Python's CVS yet; I don't know how the Python developers think
> about it. 

Hmm, maybe I should post encouraging someone to look at this.

>> Is there anything we should
>> do in the build system to account for your changes?
>> 
>
> You mean in Boost.Build? I don't think so. My patches affect how you configure
> Python itself and, by default, Python's main is now compiled and linked with
> the C compiler. But AFAICT that does not change how you need to build C++
> extension modules.

OK, thanks again.
-- 
Dave Abrahams
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