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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

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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