On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:49:34AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > I hope this helps anyone who has faced the problem themselves. I have a > question too, is there anyway to use the unmangled name? AFAIK, mangling > isn't portable and unportability kind of defeats the whole purpose of > using autoconf don't you think?
You could probably use the unmangled name if you convince autoconf to compile the program fragment as a C++ program. Adding "-x c++" to the general CFLAGS might work, though that means you can't have any normal C files in your package. The best solution is probably to have an autoconf macro specifically for testing for C++ functions. Note that using C++ kind of defeats the whole purpose of using autoconf :-) Autoconf is not even very happy about using ANSI C, because it's not available everywhere. Richard Braakman
