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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 6.5 cvs: problem with includes in
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In-Reply-To: <16288.926719191@sss.pgh.pa.us> from Tom Lane at "May 14,
	1999 05:59:51 pm"
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 05:12:03 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org,
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> Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> > To compile postgres using gcc 2.7.2.1 I had to modify 2 files
> >  src/interfaces/libpq++/pgconnection.cc
> >  src/interfaces/libpq++/pgenv.h
> > Particularly, 
> > #include <iostream> to #include <iostream.h>
> > #include <strstream> to #include <strstream.h>
> 
> I am seeing the same thing here with gcc 2.7.2.2.  We need to adopt
> a considered policy about whether libpq++ will still support gcc 2.7.*,
> not just break it without thinking.
> 
> I'd vote for still supporting 2.7.*, but I know that the C++ library
> shipped with this gcc release is not real up-to-date.  It may not be
> practical to support both latest-C++-spec compilers and the older
> generation; I'm not sure what the issues are.
> 
> If the conclusion is "no", then the configure script ought to be
> changed to not try to build libpq++ unless up-to-date libraries
> are available.

The addition/removal of '.h' has happened before.  Some need it, some
can't handle it.

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