Re: How to force libtool to use CXX mode?

2024-05-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Automake does have a critical bug in that for a target which only optionally > has C++ sources, that target is always linked using C++. Without this issue, > the trick of including an empty optional C++ source file in the build would > work. But I do not want GraphicsMag

Re: How to force libtool to use CXX mode?

2024-05-13 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On 5/13/24 16:37, Karl Berry wrote: convince Automake to force libtool to link using the C++ compiler When there are no C++ sources? Why? Just trying to understand ... There are no C++ sources from my project, but there is a C++ compiler used for the overall build. As clarification, this i

Re: How to force libtool to use CXX mode?

2024-05-13 Thread Karl Berry
convince Automake to force libtool to link using the C++ compiler When there are no C++ sources? Why? Just trying to understand ... I'm sorry Bob, but I just don't know. Maybe the just-released libtool-2.5.0 alpha offers some new help? If there is some bug in or feature for Automake that wo