The following reply was made to PR pkg/32744; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: joerg@britannica.bec.de
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/32744: cups build fails on darwin, basic c++ symbols unresolved
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:54:27 +0100

 On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 03:40:02PM +0000, Yuji Yamano wrote:
 >  >  The problem is that he is linking with gcc and not ${CXX} aka g++. Can
 >  >  you try to trace down where it defines the linker and change that to
 >  >  ${CXX}?
 >  
 >  cups-1.1.23/config-scripts/cups-compiler.m4 line 70 does it to
 >  link libsupc++ statically for binary portability between Linux 
 >  distributions. And the hack was removed in the latest version.
 >  Do you think we can ignore the portability?
 
 I feared something stupid like this. Yes, we certainly can. I think it
 is not the only platform this can be a problem on.
 
 Joerg