Re: libtool 1.4b and $CC = g++ and cygwin32

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Wednesday 08 August 2001 7:41 pm, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When building the latest aspell (C++ code) using libtool we found that the
> following snippet of libtool (from libtool.m4) fails when using cygwin32
>
>
>     extract_expsyms_cmds='test -f $output_objdir/impgen.c || \
>       sed -e "/^# \/\* impgen\.c starts here \*\//,/^# \/\* impgen.c ends
> here \*\// { s/^# //;s/^# *$//; p; }" -e d < $''0 >
> $output_objdir/impgen.c~ test -f $output_objdir/impgen.exe || (cd
> $output_objdir && \ if test "x$HOST_CC" != "x" ; then $HOST_CC -o impgen
> impgen.c ; \ else $CC -o impgen impgen.c ; fi)~
>       $output_objdir/impgen $dir/$soroot > $output_objdir/$soname-def'
>
>
> It fails when $CC is defined to be g++ and not gcc

Did you also set HOST_CC to g++?  Or did it default to that in the absence of 
an explicit setting?  I think the solution is to set HOST_CC=gcc in the 
environment of the build.

> (when you try to compile impgen.c with g++ it barfs with alot of non-ANSI
> C++ error messages).
>
> Thought you might like to know.

Fer sure.  =)O|

Cheers,
        Gary.
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