I have two classes with the same name in different namespaces. I want one of these classes to reference the other class. The reason is that I am migrating to some newer code and I want to update the old code to simply pass through to the newer code.

Here is a super basic example:

namespace project {
namespace legacy {

class Content {
 public:
  Content(const string& url) : url_(url) { }
  string url() { return url_; }
 private:
  string url_;
};

}} // namespace project::legacy;

namespace project {
namespace current {

class Content {
 public:
  Content(const string& url) : url_(url) {}
  string url() { return url_; }
 private:
  string url_;

}} // namespace project::current;

I expected to be able to do the following to project::legacy::Content, but I am having trouble with some linker issues. Is this an issue with how I'm trying to do this, or do I need to look more closely at my project files to see if I have some sort of weird dependency issues?

#include "project/current/Content.h"
namespace project {
namespace legacy {

class Content {
 public:
  Content(const string& url) : actualContent_(url) { }
  string url() { return actualContent_.url(); }
 private:
  project::current::Content actualContent_;
};

}} // namespace project::legacy;

The test application compiles fine if I try to reference an instance of project::current::Content but if I try to reference project::current::Content from project::legacy::Content I get an:

undefined reference to `project::current::Content::Content(...)`

UPDATE

As it turns out, this was a GNU Autotoolset issue and was unrelated to the actual topic. Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions!