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

[D. V. W. <ge...@ke...>]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:25:53PM -0400, Steve Benton wrote:
> 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

Ahhhh... yeah, at one point there were two instances of AC_PROG_CXX in
the configure script, one inside the conditional and one outside.  I
guess I deleted the wrong one.

Thanks,
-dvw
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