Re: gui/oprof_start.cpp and gcc 2.95.3

[Albert C. <al...@us...>]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 19:43, Philippe Elie wrote:
> Albert Cahalan wrote:

>> For C++ you should use gcc 3.2 or higher. If a compiler
>> upgrade is not acceptable, convert the code to plain C.
>
> uh really, I must add in oprofile pre-requesites, gcc 3.2
> a qt compiled with 3.2. Then add specific distro code to
> detect the right binutils/qt/glibc (or said to user buy a
> 3.2 based distro) ? I didn't check from one month but
> oprofile was compilable with 2.91 and except if I run
> into a wall we will support it at least one or two years.

Until just recently, g++ was very bad.

C is a different matter. Note that you don't need C++ to
do a GUI. Both GTK and Lesstif will work with plain C.
GTK has the advantage of blending in with GNOME stuff.

Since oprofile is a developer tool, you might just demand
a recent C++ compiler. It's "g++-3.2" on my Debian box.
If "specific distro code to detect" stuff isn't easy, then
you're not getting much out of the autoconf/automake crud.