"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
I've finally gotten past a maddening problem in attempting to build gfontview. It seems that gfontview uses c++, which is equivalent to g++, which works (at least as configured under SuSE 6.2) only if egcs is installed.
So what is egcs? How does it relate to gcc? And why does c++ use egcs rather than gcc?
Go to http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html My understanding is that egcs was an offshoot of gcc. Since Gcc2.95 they have been folded together. Actually egcs became 2.95. So the current gcc [2.95.2] is actually egcs. I don't know why the c++ shipped with SuSE uses egcs instead of gcc. I don't see egcs installed in /usr/bin on my system but c++/g++ are there. Nick -- -------------------------------------------------- Nick Zentena "Microsoft has unjustifiably jeopardized the stability and security of the operating system." U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Nov 5/1999 -------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/