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

[Mostaço-Guidolin, Luiz C. B. <lcguid () gmail com>]

Oh ok, I think it is minor indeed . Sorry I coundn't help more!

Cheers

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2009/6/29 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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