cxx V6.2 will compile LyX out of the box.
cxx V6.3-020 is also known to work, although there is a bug in
- /usr/include/cxx/deque. See Angus Leeming <leeming@lyx.org> for the
- patch.
+ /usr/include/cxx/deque that will break compilation in FormPreferences.C.
+ Compaq are investigating, but a patch that works /now/ is:
+
+--- /usr/include/cxx/deque_safe Mon Mar 4 21:09:50 2002
++++ /usr/include/cxx/deque Mon Mar 4 21:09:00 2002
+@@ -570,9 +570,11 @@
+ {
+ if (size() >= x.size())
+ erase(copy(x.begin(), x.end(), begin()), end());
+- else
+- copy(x.begin() + size(), x.end(),
+- inserter(*this,copy(x.begin(),x.begin()+size(),begin())));
++ else {
++ const_iterator mid = x.begin() + difference_type(size());
++ copy(x.begin(), mid, begin());
++ insert(end(), mid, x.end());
++ }
+ }
+ return *this;
+ }
+
At the time of writing, cxx V6.5-026 is the latest cxx compiler. It is
/not/ recommended. Not only do the bugs in the system header files still
exist, but the compiler itself appears to be both buggy and extremely