[getdata-devel] Bug in configure, with --disable-cplusplus

[Steve B. <sb...@ph...>]

Hi again,

I have discovered a bug in the configure script that causes it to fail
when the C++ bindings are set not to build.

$ ./configure --disable-cplusplus
.....lots of output.....
*** Writing configure output

configure: error: conditional "am__fastdepCXX" was never defined.
Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.


I've traced this to version 0.7.2 where extra calls to AC_PROG_CXX and
AC_PROG_CXX_0 (in configure.ac) were removed, leaving just calls that
are conditionally reached only when the C++ bindings are  being built.
Some google searching
(http://sourceware.org/ml/automake/2005-01/msg00037.html) indicates that
maybe these should always be run.

When I comment out the if statment (see attached diff) then configure
succeeds.

-Steve