Re: branch-1_4 allow C++ on Linux

[Eric Blake]

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According to Gary V. Vaughan on 11/1/2006 8:40 PM:
> Hi Eric,
> 

Hello Gary,

> On 1 Nov 2006, at 16:28, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> allowing a C++ compilation on Linux can catch
>>> type errors.  Most other platforms suck in too much of gnulib,
>>> including bits
>>> that won't work with C++, but this patch allows a Linux system to
>>> complete the
>>> testsuite with './configure CC=g++ --enable-changeword
>>> --without-included-
>>> regex'.
> 
> Cool.  I should try to swallow my loathing of C++ from time to time if
> I am ever to dare patches like this ;-)
> 
> Have you tried HEAD too?  

Not yet - head has changed enough from branch that I am not sure how a C++
build will fare; plus the fact that it pulls in libtool and more of
gnulib, so it has more potential points of failure.  It's not my highest
priority, but it is on the list of cool things to try before 2.0.

> I'll have to get Gettext-0.16 building on
> Mac OS X before I can build m4 again :-(

Good luck with that.  Actually, if you were to hack configure.ac to drop
the requirement back to gettext 0.15 in your build tree, Mac might give a
successful build.  0.15 is only incompatible with automake 1.10+ in the
sense that it fails to install on systems that lack a decent mkdir(1), but
I don't think Mac falls in that category.

> Research Scientist   ( '/   http://blog.azazil.net

Your road-trip sounds fun!

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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