Re: Libtool and g++

[Brian Dessent]

Andrej Prsa wrote:

>         AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> 
> The problem is, this test seems to depend on the presence of C++
> compiler, e.g. g++. When ./configuring, it stops with:

The libtool mailing list might be a better place to post this.

> Now it is true that cc1plus isn't present on my system, but why should
> it be, since it comes from g++, whereas my project is plain C? It
> doesn't really make sense to have ./configure depend on g++ presence
> although the project doesn't need it. I guess this may very well be
> libtool's fault, but I thought I'd ask here first.
> 
> I'm using libtool 1.5.6 and autoconf 2.59. From browsing through the
> archives I found that libtool 2.0 should take care of a similar problem:

This was fixed in libtool 1.5.10, which was released more than a year
ago (2004-09-19).  The current version is 1.5.20.  You should try
upgrading to a version that is not so ancient.

Brian