Problem compiling InterViews with g++ 1.37.2 beta.

[John Coolidge]

lamarche at ireq.hydro.qc.ca writes:
>I finaly got g++ 1.37.2 beta from wuarchive.wustl.edu and I tried to compile
>InterViews (X11R4 original distribution ). The make -k command hangs in
>$(TOP)/InterViews/src/libInterViews/macII with the following message.


>compiling ../filebrowser.c
>        rm -f filebrowser.o
>        g++ -D_BSD_SOURCE -c    -I.. -I../Generated -I../../.././src/InterViews/
>Std -I../../.././src    ../filebrowser.c
>Failed assertion `i != LAST_CPLUS_TREE_CODE' at line 575 of `cplus-lex.c'.
>g++: Program cc1plus got fatal signal 6.
>Make: Update of filebrowser.o terminated with exit code 1
>Make: Target filebrowser.o is on line 345 in /usr/local/src/macII-X/contrib/tool
>kits/InterViews/src/libInterViews/macII/Makefile
>Make: Stopped in directory /usr/local/src/macII-X/contrib/toolkits/InterViews/sr
>c/libInterViews/macII.

>Does anybody has an idea of what is wrong with this?

This is extremely odd, since I compiled InterViews with g++ and
everything worked fine. I've seen this problem before when using
Apple's as; the problem seemed to be that a symbol in the file
was conflicting with the starting symbol of one of g++'s internal
signals. Since, with gas, it's supposed to be starting everything
with '$' (I think), the InterViews compilation should work. I'll
try to find out what's going wrong.

I'm going to be off the net for at least a week and possibly three
(vacation; hopefully I'll have net access in a week).

Happy holidays!

--John

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