6.2 buildworld fails without "NO_CXX=YES"

Bill Moran wmoran at collaborativefusion.com
Mon Jan 29 19:06:07 UTC 2007


In response to archon <archon_666 at mail.ru>:

> I've just updated the sources in FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE and tried to
> rebuild world. With option 'NO_CXX=YES' in /etc/make.conf world compiled
> successful, if this option not added 'make buildworld' failed. 'make
> buildworld' fails:

groff is written in C++.  If you can live without groff, there may be a
NO_GROFF knob you could tweak.  However, it looks like openssl is also
written in C++ as well.  If you can live without those two, it should be
doable.

I'm not sure how practical a system without C++ is in the modern world.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.


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