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In article <1992Nov11.074040.2411@u.washington.edu> edgar@ms.washington.edu (Edgar Karl Nielsen) writes:
>	Does gnu g++ require the libg++ package to be installed?

No, but you're fairly crippled without it if your vendor does not
provide ANSI C header files.

>My installation of gcc2.2 seems to behave this way, but it seems strange that
>the gcc documentation makes no references to this requirement.

The gcc documentation describes the C compiler, with a few brief
references to C++.  But the compiler itself doesn't need the library,
and back in the old days when libg++ was under the GPL, the InterViews
people (among others) wrote replacement streams classes so you could
avoid use of libg++ entirely (with the LGPL there's no longer much
reason to do this, IMHO, since it permits object-only distribution of
"works that use the library").

>In addition,
>the groff documentation says that you don't need libg++ when running gcc2.x,
>only when running lesser versions. I would appreciate enlightenment on this
>topic!

Beats me.  I do think that it might be an improvement if certain headers
required for any implementation by the ANSI C++ committee (things like
wrappers for the standard headers required for any C++ implementation)
were moved from the libg++ distribution to the gcc distribution.  This
would be easier to do once the Gnu C library is integrated more cleanly
with libg++ (right now they fight with each other).



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