Re: libpq++ current sources don't compile with older C++ compilers

On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:16:57PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Today I did something I usually do about once per release cycle: try to
> build the system with HP's vendor cc, rather than gcc which I prefer.
> This usually turns up some portability issues, and indeed I found some.
> One that I'm not entirely sure about how to fix is that libpq++ no
> longer builds at all:
>
> aCC +z -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../src/include -I/usr/local/include -c -o pgconnection.o pgconnection.cc
> Error 56: "pgconnection.cc", line 20 # Namespaces are not yet implemented.
> using namespace std;
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Given that we have a HAVE_NAMESPACE_STD configure symbol, I do not
> understand why unconditional "using"s have been inserted into the
> libpq++ files. Shouldn't these be protected by #ifdef
> HAVE_NAMESPACE_STD? Or is there a different fix that's more
> appropriate?

What version of aCC are you using? Newer releases support -AA which
provide the std namespace. This, of course, doesn't answer your
question.

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