Re: Implications of tighter integration of libg++

[Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>]

  In message <199711250040.SAA09460@supra.rsch.comm.mot.com>you write:
  > Under EGCS, there is now tighter integration between g++ and the
  > required standard C++ libraries, in that they are now distributed and
  > configured together.
  > 
  > Should we assume that this tighter integration will continue?  Or is
  > this just a short-term situation to aid current development?
We expect the tighter integration to continue indefinitely.

[ ... ]
  > It is desirable to place libraries compiled against and dependent upon
  > a given version of g++, and their related header files, into the
  > compiler's lib and include directory.  Thus, I actually believe that
  > something akin to the above should be the default.  Someone else
  > believed this at one time given the comments in gcc/Makefile.in:
With the stabilizaton of the C++ language and its associated runtime libraries
I wonder if this will be all that useful.

I kinda get the feeling that we'll start seeing releases that are compatable
at both the header file level and at the link level in the near future.

Just my opinions -- the g++ folks might have different ideas about this
whole area.

jeff