Re: GCC include files conundrum.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:59:51AM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> FreeBSD stopped installing `strstream.h' in January.  See rev 1.48 of
> src/gnu/lib/libstdc++/Makefile.  The commit log indicates it was removed
> in (some release of) GCC 3.3.  I wonder if this is correct though---

strstream.h was removed from the FSF GCC sources:

http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/libstdc%2b%2b-v3/include/backward/Attic/strstream.h

FreeBSD's import of FSF GCC sources reflects this change.


> compiler messages seem to contradict this.

The compiler message in GCC could be wrong in this particular
case for strstream.h.


> It looks to me like tclmidi uses only class ostrstream.  The easiest
> solution to your problem would be to add a file named `strstream.h' with
> the following contents:
> 
>   #include <strstream>
>   using std::ostrstream;
> 
> The longer term solution is to kill the port, or to port it to Standard
> C++.  Porting it to Standard C++ would probably entail rewriting uses of
> <strstream.h> and `ostrstream' to <sstream> and `ostringstream'; and
> rewriting uses of other C++ `.h' headers to the standard form without
> .h;  and adding `using namespace std;' liberally.

I've fixed a few ports by doing exactly what you have outlined.
Admittedly, it's grunt work, but......... :)

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