On Thu, 18 May 2000, Ossama Othman wrote:
> > I was wondering what the status of:
> >
> > 1) Adding support for C++ on all (or most) platforms where g++ is used
> > as the C++ compiler.
>
> The problem with the C++ support in the multi-language branch in the
> case of g++ is that each platform has its own g++ configuration. I
> don't recall why I set things up that way, but I may have had a
> reason. Anyway, assuming that there is no good reason to have
> platform specific g++ configurations, then the solution would be to
> take the Linux g++ configuration, for example, and move to a point
> before all the platform-specific configurations occur, and perhaps
> setup a "with_gxx" (as opposed to with_gcc) flag, similar to what is
> done with the C compiler configurations. These changes would have to
> be done in the ltcf-cxx.sh shell script fragment.
>
> Does this reasonable?
Sure. I don't know anything about libtool's internals but if you send me
a patch I can try it out on several different platforms including Digital
UNIX which currently doesn't have C++ support.
> Donations are always welcome. :-)
Well if you point me in the right direction I may just give you one....
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Kevin Atkinson
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