Subject: Re: Remove dependency on C++ compiler

Re: Remove dependency on C++ compiler

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: 2006-05-07

On Sat, 6 May 2006, Bram Matthys (Syzop) wrote:

> backported from libtool 1.6 by Paolo Bonzini

Thanks for your mail. This silly dependency on a C++ compiler certainly is...
silly.

So this is code originating from libtool? libtool is GPL licensed and we
cannot easily just merge in code from them into c-ares.

But reading this patch, and if this is then how libtool works, can't we
achieve an ever better result by simply setting all those tools' variables
(like "CXX" and "F77" etc) to "no" before this function runs in configure?

And if not, why does this patch include code for doing the C++ and F77 checks
etc when its sole purpose is to remove the dependencies on those tools?

-- 
   c-ares -- my preferred DNS asynch resolver library
Received on Sun May 7 21:07:02 2006