-inline int stringcasecmp(const char *A,const char *AEnd,const char *B) {return stringcasecmp(A,AEnd,B,B+strlen(B));};
-inline int stringcasecmp(string A,const char *B) {return stringcasecmp(A.c_str(),A.c_str()+A.length(),B,B+strlen(B));};
-inline int stringcasecmp(string A,string B) {return stringcasecmp(A.c_str(),A.c_str()+A.length(),B.c_str(),B.c_str()+B.length());};
-inline int stringcasecmp(string A,const char *B,const char *BEnd) {return stringcasecmp(A.c_str(),A.c_str()+A.length(),B,BEnd);};
+
+/* We assume that GCC 3 indicates that libstdc++3 is in use too. In that
+ case the definition of string::const_iterator is not the same as
+ const char * and we need these extra functions */
+#if __GNUC__ >= 3
+int stringcmp(string::const_iterator A,string::const_iterator AEnd,
+ const char *B,const char *BEnd);
+int stringcmp(string::const_iterator A,string::const_iterator AEnd,
+ string::const_iterator B,string::const_iterator BEnd);
+int stringcasecmp(string::const_iterator A,string::const_iterator AEnd,
+ const char *B,const char *BEnd);
+int stringcasecmp(string::const_iterator A,string::const_iterator AEnd,
+ string::const_iterator B,string::const_iterator BEnd);
+
+inline int stringcmp(string::const_iterator A,string::const_iterator Aend,const char *B) {return stringcmp(A,Aend,B,B+strlen(B));};
+inline int stringcasecmp(string::const_iterator A,string::const_iterator Aend,const char *B) {return stringcasecmp(A,Aend,B,B+strlen(B));};
+#endif
+
+APT_MKSTRCMP2(stringcmp,stringcmp);
+APT_MKSTRCMP2(stringcasecmp,stringcasecmp);