On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 10:12, Peter Hull <peterhul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 23:54, Alex Remily <alex.rem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I believe it is for cross compilation, owing to the comments in the > > makefile: > > # for cross-compilation on Ubuntu, install the g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 package > I think you could also argue that the other way around - ie. those are > the packages you need if you want to cross-compile C++. > > I quickly tried replacing CXX with CC on a Mac running OS 10.15 and, > admittedly both failed, but in the same way, finding "LibreSSL" in the > version string rather than "OpenSSL". This is mentioned in > BUILDING.txt and I assume it could be fixed by following the > suggestion in that file, but I can't risk messing anything up just at > the moment. So I don't think in that case using the C linker instead > of the C++ linker caused any problems.
On macOS, CC and CXX have the same definition, so it's not surprising there was no difference in your testing. > This seems like a bit of a "Chesterton's Fence" to me! > > Peter > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
