[ expat-Bugs-484419 ] -fexceptions not supported in older gcc

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Bugs item #484419, was opened at 2001-11-21 16:39
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Category: Build control
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Greg Stein (gstein)
Summary: -fexceptions not supported in older gcc

Initial Comment:
At least gcc 2.7.x does not support -fexceptions.

The following patch to configure.in disables
-fexceptions from CFLAGS for version of gcc prior to 2.8.

--- configure.in.orig   Thu Nov 22 00:23:32 2001
+++ configure.in
@@ -63,7 +63,14 @@
 AC_PROG_INSTALL
 
 if test "$GCC" = yes ; then
-    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wstrict-prototypes -fexceptions
"
+    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wstrict-prototypes"
+    ${CC-cc} -v >conftest.c 2>&1
+    gcc_pre_fexceptions=`
+       awk '/gcc version/{sub("^[^0-9]*","",$3);if
($3<2.8){print "true"} }' \
+       conftest.c`
+    if [ -z "$gcc_pre_fexceptions" ]; then
+       CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fexceptions"
+    fi
 fi
 
 dnl Checks for libraries.


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>Comment By: Greg Stein (gstein)
Date: 2001-12-07 03:04

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Fred integrated something like this into configure.in.

Closed as fixed in the upcoming release.

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