Re: [Lzip-bug] solaris compile errors, lzip, and plzip: error: stdint.h: No such file or directory

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

rupert THURNER wrote:
> we compile quite a lot of packages and most of them produce shared
> libraries, and none of them uses the gnu linker, see
> http://www.opencsw.org/packages. maybe there is a chance to adjust the
> configure so it takes care of the differences, linker and header
> files?

I almost never do this (bloat the configure so it takes care of the 
differences). If there is a standard or common way of doing something (a 
standard header, common linker arguments, etc) I'll happily use it. I 
have for example solved this way the problem with getopt_long or the 
debian version of install-info.


> why did you choose to implement it in c++ btw?

Because "I never saw a project for which C was better than C++ for any 
reason but the lack of a good C++ compiler." (Bjarne Stroustrup).

The question for me is, why so many people still prefer plain C?


Regards,
Antonio.