Dixit John Levon <levon at movementarian.org> (2002-11-11 00:36): > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 05:42:30PM -0500, Pierre Sarrazin wrote: > > Another way to force automake to use g++ to link the application > > seems to be to leave the .c alone, but to add a dummy.cc file to > > the application's _SOURCES variable. The .c file is still compiled > > by gcc. > > This seems like the best hack suggested so far.
By the way, to avoid having the 'dist' target include dummy.cc in the distributed source tarball, one has to say this: prog_SOURCES = prog.c nodist_prog_SOURCES = dummy.cc And to have 'clean' erase the generated dummy.cc: clean-local: rm -f dummy.cc -- Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip at sympatico . ca>