On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Jeff Trawick wrote: > Albert Chin wrote: > > It's really annoying to have 1.5 automatically generate the C++ and > > F77 tags. I'm trying to figure out why it does this. > > does "generate the C++ and F77 tags" mean "care whether or not the C++ > preprocessor is acceptable?" > > the latest Apache source tarball was prepared with libtool 1.5, and > somebody with an unacceptable C++ prepreprocessor (which means nothing > to Apache) couldn't build, though they'd been able to build prior release
I have noticed this myself. Apparently a standard Autoconf test is used to test the C++ cpp, and if the test fails, configure exits with an error. This may be an acceptable approach for C, but it is not a friendly approach when testing C++, which may not be used by the package, or may be used for an optional component. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
