Re: libtool fails without a CXX compiler installed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Tue, May 24, 2005 at 10:02:31PM CEST:
> * Eric Sandall wrote on Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:54:23PM CEST:
> > 
> > Without g++ installed:
> > checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
> > checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
> > checking dependency style of g++... none
> > checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
> > configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
> > See `config.log' for more details
> 
> Yes.  Known bug, fixed properly in branch-2-0.  Unfortunately I don't
> know of a clean workaround for branch-1-5, and we have a handful of
> patches (at least, and one of them tricky) that need to go into
> branch-2-0 before we can release the next 2.0alpha, and then hopefully
> 2.0 soon after that.  Sorry.

Argh.  /me is really bad in reading lately.

I'll take that back.  This being a known bug and not knowing a fix was
wrong, thanks Peter for clearing that up.  Apparently this false info
has turned up in several places already, sorry for that.

If this is present in 1.5.18, then we need to fix it.

Regards,
Ralf