Re: [Flightgear-devel] --with-cxx= in SimGear

[Bernie B. <bb...@bi...>]

"Curtis L. Olson" wrote:
> 
> Cameron Moore writes:
> > I noticed today that SimGear has a --with-cxx= option setup in it's
> > configure.in.  The comments around it mention Kai C++, which I've never
> > used.  Is this option really necessary?  Why isn't the following good
> > enough?
> >   sh$ CXX="kcc" CXXFLAGS="-whatever" ./configure
> 
> This was added by Bernie Bright and he seemed to have a reason at the
> time, although I no longer remember what that reason was ...

I'm stretching here but I seem to remember that KAI generates
dependencies differently than gcc so some of the default make rules
needed changing.  If no one uses KAI then I have no problem with
removing it from configure.in.  The inspiration for this came from the
Blitz project.

Bernie