Re: build trouble on MacOS 10.6

[Ben Abbott]

On Wednesday, November 25, 2009, at 03:23PM, "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> 
wrote:
>On 23-Nov-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>| It doesn't appear to me that Octave is aware of
>| /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib when building. Is it possible that
>| /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib being loaded at run time?
>| 
>| If so, can someone educate me on the process by which libraries are
>| searched/located?
>
>I'm not sure I understand what you are asking.  If you mean how does
>the configure script find libraries, it runs the compiler/linker.
>
>As far as I know, there is no explicit check for libstdc++.  How (or
>if) the compiler links to libstdc++ is built in to the compiler.
>
>jwe

Yesterday one of Fink's contributers pointed out to me how the gcc 4.2 
libstdc++ is introduced. Currently, Fink uses gcc 4.2 (or maybe 4.0?) to build 
the fltk libraries. If I can figure out how to modify the fltk package so that 
it uses gcc 4.4, then my troubles building may be over.

Ben