For those interested, I sent a problem report for this issue. Its ID
is 'pkg/33467'.

Frederic.

On 5/12/06, joerg@britannica.bec.de <joerg@britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:55:18PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > I've encountered several packages in the last week or two where I had t=
o
> > add
> >
> >       USE_LANGUAGES=3D  c++
> >
> > to the Makefile.  I don't understand why this is suddenly needed; it's
> > magic to me -- but doing that has solved the problem with some packages
> > that use C++.
>
> BTW, this is a different problem. The C++ wrapper would have returned
> with error 1.
>
> Joerg
>