Re: ABS compile error

On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:56, guh wrote:
> ok, after taking some time away from eb-lite, i thought it was time to
> try again since I saw alpha 9 was released with this ABS to make things
> easier.  I ran ./configure in alpah-9abs/core/ with only one error:
Hmm - if it's ABS, you shouldn't be running "configure" - there shouldn't *be* 
a configure - try running ./config.mer. From the output you list later, 
bizarrely, it looks like that's what you did...

> /bin/sh: line 1: c++: command not found

> I checked that c++ is indeed an invalid command, but g++ and gcc both
> work.  Is c++ something I need installed separately?
Hmm, that's odd. "c++" is supposed to generically call the C++ compiler, in 
much the same way as "cc" generically calls the C compiler. Normally, "c++" 
is just a symlink to "g++" (which is itself a link to gcc). GCC just looks at 
the name that's been used to call it, and if it's "g++" or "c++", enables the 
default C++ link options.

You have a couple of options:

(a)	Try "which g++". If it was, say, in /usr/bin/g++, then you can make a link 
to it with:
	ln -s g++ /usr/bin/c++
(as root, of course)

(b)	Edit the Makefile - unlike the autotools-created monstrosities, the ABS 
makefiles are quite simple to edit. Look for the line in 
eb-lite-alpha9/core/src/Makefile which starts with "c++", and change it to 
"g++". No root access required, and it should build after this. Downside is 
that you'd have to do it again each time 

Meredydd