On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:10:20AM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
If a program which is based on C language depends on a library which
is implemented in C++, the C++ compiler should be used to link the
program. Otherwise C++ static initialization may not work right, or
linking may fail entirely. Libtool doesn't currently offer any
provision to do that.
The installed .la file for a C++ library does not indicate the
implementation language, or what linker should be used. When the C++
library was built using modern GCC then libstdc++.la is listed as a
library dependency so at some clue may be gleaned from that fact.
It seems to me that this is a fundamental flaw in muti-lingual libtool
as it exists today.
Shouldn't the developer be responsible for using the C++ compiler
rather than the C compiler? Why should libtool solve this? Without
libtool, the developer should be using the C++ compiler to link
anyway.