clang++ fails to compile STL-using C++ code out of the box

[Alex B]

Binary package hint: clang

clang++ uses GCC's STL, but appears to only support versions up to 4.4: if you try to compile a trivial program on Natty Narwhal, it will fail:

cat<<EOF > foo.cc
#include <iostream>
int main() {return 0;}
EOF
clang++ --verbose foo.cc

Note in the output how it starts looking for GCC includes starting with version 4.4, then 4.3, etc...

However Natty Narwhal only has 4.5 installed, and clang package (incorrectly) lists libstdc++ dependency as >=4.5. Installing g++-4.4 fixes the problem, but dependency should be fixed up.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package clang - 2.9-1

---------------
clang (2.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/packages.d/tools.mk: clang C++ headers detection was broken. Set them
    by default. Thanks to Michael Wild for doing my work
  * debian/control: libstdc++6-4.5-dev added as dependency of clang
    (LP: #779404)
  * debian/patches/searchGCCPath.patch: Added a path to the search of the C++
    header (Closes: #594820) (LP: #764870)
  * debian/control.in/llvm-gcc-4.2, debian/control.in/llvm-snapshot,
    debian/packages.d/llvm-gcc-4.2.mk, debian/packages.d/llvm-snapshot.mk:
    removed
  * Upload in unstable
 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Fri, 27 May 2011 07:44:05 +0000

[Matthias Blaicher (blaicher)]

I still have this problem under up to date Natty, the most recent package version there is 2.8-0ubuntu2. Could this be backported to natty? Or at least the dependency for gcc-4.4 be added?