Re: [plplot-devel] CFDIR branch ready for testing

[Andrew R. <and...@us...>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:29:57AM +0100, Arjen Markus wrote:
> Andrew Ross wrote:
> > 
> > Arjen,
> > 
> > Do you know which version of the IRIX C++ compiler you have? A quick
> > search on the web shows up both these problems. It seems that the std
> > namespace is only defined if you include a suitable header file. We can
> > probably fix that.
> > 
> > The missing cstdlib problem is also documented. You may be able to work
> > around this by just changing <cstdlib> to use the C version <stdlib.h>.
> > I'd rather not make these changes in the examples. Do the bindings
> > compile ok for you? If so maybe we should add a note that the examples
> > are designed to conform to the latest C++ standards and some older
> > compilers may have trouble.
> > 
> > I guess another option would be to have configure pick up these problems
> > and provide suitable workarounds. I would probably need some help from
> > the configure gurus for that.
> > 
> 
> The bindings are okay - after I set the option -LANG:std.
> 
> This is also used when compiling the examples, so I am a bit confused
> here.
> 
> The version of the C++ compiler on this IRIX system is: 7.30.
> As we do not use C++ that often/intensively, it may very well be a
> rather
> old version.
> 
> I am not sure it is worth the trouble to extend the configuration system
> to make it work with an old compiler. The header file <iostream>
> mentions a date
> like 1998. It would be much easier to simply document which standard we
> need.

If the bindings are ok I'd probably agree that we should leave the
examples alone. I'll try and write some notes for a README in the
examples/C++ directory.

Andrew