Re: configure is not checking for g++ in Debian Lenny

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:16:09PM -0300, Mostaço-Guidolin, Luiz C. B. wrote:
> I tried to compile nmap
> nmap-4.85BETA10.tar.bz2<http://nmap.org/dist/nmap-4.85BETA10.tar.bz2>in
> my Debian Lenny (without g++ installed but with gcc installed) and the
> ./configure script reports no error. So, obviously when I tried to compile
> it with make it returns error. Then, after the installation o g++ it
> compiles ok.

Thanks for the report. I looked into this. It turns out that the
configure script is in fact looking for a C++ compiler, but it does so
with the AC_PROG_CXX macro, which uses "g++" for a default value if none
was found.

http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/C_002b_002b-Compiler.html

A web search shows that this has been a minor irritation for some other
projects. It appears that the behavior of AC_PROG_CXX may change in the
future to allow detection of a missing compiler, however from what I
could tell it's not changed in the Autoconf git tree.

http://osdir.com/ml/bug-autoconf-gnu/2009-06/msg00006.html

I think this is a minor enough problem that we can just wait until
Autoconf makes it easy to fix.

David Fifield

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