On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:21:10PM +0100, Tom wrote:
> Some google hits say, that the compiler does not surround the c-header with 
> 
> extern "C" {
> 
> }

The NetBSD header files have __BEGIN_DECLS / __END_DECLS macros to do
exactly this when used with a C++ compiler.

What you see sounds more like some C++ file is used within an extern "C"
scope - i.e. exactly the opposite.

If you could show us a small sample program that causes this problem, we
could check wether it's a problem in the application or a bug in the
installed headers.

Martin