> >>> I would like to be able to use a different compiler to build and
run
> >>> some of my own applications on Netbsd 1.6.1. The native compiler
is
> > gcc
> >>> 2.95.3 and I would like to use gcc 3.3.x (because of exception
> > handling
> >>> problems in 2.95). What concerns me is shared library
compatibility -
> >>> especially X, QT, GL etc - since I know that the C++ ABI differs
> > between
> >>> those 2 gcc releases.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know of any documentation which might cover this, and
if
> >>> anyone has tried something like this I would appreciate any hints
or
> >>> advice,
> >>
> >> You'll probably need to recompile/re-install all the c++ shared
> > libraries.
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. Does that mean that any "straight" C libraries
> > should be fine? At the time of writing I had rebuilt QT, and things
> > worked nominally although I have core dumps when I hit GL/GLU code
> > (presumably these are C++ libraries). I would expect the X libraries
to
> > be C? but is there any trick to knowing which are C and which are
C++?
>
>   The other option would be to upgrade to NetBSD-3, which ships
>   with gcc-3.3.3

I wish it were as easy as that. I am currently using NetBSD 3 as well,
but legacy systems demand the old version of NetBSD unfortunately and it
seems the compiler is broken wrt exceptions