Beginners q. on aotoconf and automake

[Tommy Nordgren]

I am trying co set up an open source library based on the GNU  
Autotools, so it will build a C++ version of the
library as well. I wonder what is necessary to do to support this. My  
C++ files are defined like this:
//File test.cp
#define LIB_COMPILE_AS_CPLUSPLUS
#include "test.c"

Then in the headers I changed the following:

#ifdef __cpluplus
#define BEGIN_DECLS extern "C" {
#define END_DECLS }
#else

To this:
#ifdef __cpluplus
# ifdef LIB_COMPILE_AS_CPLUSPLUS
#  define BEGIN_DECLS
#  define END_DECLS
# else
#  define BEGIN_DECLS extern "C" {
#  define END_DECLS }
# endif
#else

Now I wan't to do necessary modifications to the build  
infrastrucuture to support this.
I obviously need to modify configure.ac and the several instances of  
Makefile.am to do this.
By the way, the library I'm trying to build this way is the GSL  
numerical library.

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Tommy Nordgren, "The dying old crone"