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  • From: Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] g++ removal
  • Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:23:52 -0600

Okay, thanks was just curious. Though might want to be careful of
removing examples as some (like me) may want them for some things.

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:06 -0800, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 06:01:07AM -0600, Robin Cook wrote:
> > Just curious,
> >
> > Is there a reason that g++ is being removed from everything instead of
> > being made an option? Same with other items like examples?
> >
> > CuZnDragon
> > Robin Cook
>
> You must be referring to my recent bison edit.
>
> bison doesn't require g++, but an example used it. the example code
> doesn't even need to compile (usually they aren't even installed).
>
> So removing the bison examples 1) save compile time and 2) don't bork on
> a machine without g++ installed. Even with g++ installed the spell as
> installed would be identical (I tested it), so there was no reason to
> have g++ as a depend except for the wasteful example compile.
>
> Hope that explains that situation. If it's some other edit, I can't
> explain it to you (unless you're referring to some spells with broken
> configure scripts that require g++ but the spells don't actually use it
> due to a bug in a certain version of the autotools that some developers
> used to package their sources).
>
> Seth
>
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