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Re: Autoconf 2.69 AC_PROG_CXX accepts plain C compilers


From: Philipp Thomas
Subject: Re: Autoconf 2.69 AC_PROG_CXX accepts plain C compilers
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 13:42:40 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

* Eric Blake (address@hidden) [20140205 22:49]:

> Oh - so the gcc frontend changes language syntax based on file
> extension, but does NOT change the linker backend to match.

This has nothing to do with the linker backend. It's the compiler driver
that passes the right options to the tools involved.  C++ code needs
additional libraries which are automatically passed to ld if you use g++
instead of gcc.

Philipp



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