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Re: Linking in C++ mode
Dixit John Levon <levon at movementarian.org> (2002-11-11 00:36):
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 05:42:30PM -0500, Pierre Sarrazin wrote:
> > Another way to force automake to use g++ to link the application
> > seems to be to leave the .c alone, but to add a dummy.cc file to
> > the application's _SOURCES variable. The .c file is still compiled
> > by gcc.
>
> This seems like the best hack suggested so far.
By the way, to avoid having the 'dist' target include dummy.cc in
the distributed source tarball, one has to say this:
prog_SOURCES = prog.c
nodist_prog_SOURCES = dummy.cc
And to have 'clean' erase the generated dummy.cc:
clean-local:
rm -f dummy.cc
--
Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip at sympatico . ca>