Re: GNU Libtool 1.5.2 released

[Daniel Reed]

On 2004-01-29T10:36-0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
) On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 01:35, Daniel Reed wrote:
) > The problem I was reporting is not so much the testing for C++ as it was the
) > failing of ./configure if a C++ preprocessor was not available. There is C
) > code in the various examples directories, so failing for lack of a C
) > compiler might at least be reasonable.
) That's actually an Autoconf macro that's failing, unfortunately.  It's
) an irritant, but I've not figured out a way of getting around it short
) of overriding AC_MSG_ERROR.

I believe I got this workaround from this list, but the problem goes away
after changing the definition of _LT_AC_TAGCONFIG (in libtool.m4) from the
several-page routine to just:

AC_DEFUN([_LT_AC_TAGCONFIG],[])

I have been shipping my libtool-enabled software with this change (in
acinclude.m4) and can happily report ./configure does successfully complete
on machines without C++ compilers. A change like this to libtool proper's
acinclude.m4 might allow me to install libtool on such machines without
patching it first.

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