Re: [ROOT] GCC 3.0 and confusion about CINT header files

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 19:14:32 MEST


We expect to come with a gcc 3.00 port in a couple of days.
Actually a port was provided by Peter Schmid 
(schmid@snake.iap.physik.tu-darmstadt.de) but we can only
apply it when we have gcc 3.0 running ourselves.


Cheers, Fons.


Brett Viren wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to see if the recently released gcc 3.0 can compile ROOT.
> It has gotten as far as cint/src/libstrm.cxx which fails due to not
> being able to find stdiostream.h.
> 
> This file is included with both CINT (in cint/include) (it just
> includes <iostream.h>) and with gcc 2.95 (in /usr/include/g++-3).
> However, it is missing in gcc 3.0 (not in /usr/include/g++-v3, note
> the `v').  More properly, it is missing from libstdc++3 which
> accompanies GCC.
> 
> Is this a failure of CINT or GCC/libstc++ 3.0?  I don't know enough
> about the C++ standard to know if stdiostream.h is supposed to be a
> standard header file or if CINT is relying on an assumption.
> 
> I hope we can support this new compiler and library soon.  It has many
> nice features.
> 
> -Brett.
> 
> PS: This was done with ROOT cvs as of today with gcc related packages
> coming from Debian (i386, sid).

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