The ability to specify which tags to configure is already in libtool
CVS and will be in the 1.6 release.  The specification is done via
AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS, so you could use

AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS([])

to configure only the C tag.

Bob

On 26 Nov 2003, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:

> hello libtool folks,
>
> i recently swiched to libtool 1.5 and now AC_PROG_LIBTOOL pulls in a
> horrendous amount of irrelevant checks for C++ and Fortran.  to work
> around this, i have resorted to doing:
>
>   aclocal
>   echo 'AC_DEFUN([_LT_AC_TAGCONFIG],[])' >> aclocal.m4
>
> probably it's better to call it a kludge and thus this question: are
> there plans to extend AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to specify which, if any, tags
> are to be included/omitted?  should i elevate this in my mind from
> kludge to "acceptable methodology"?
>
> fyi, the above change reduces `configure' script size from 800 to 500
> kB -- big win IMHO.
>
> thi
>
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