Re: How can we run all tests using C++ specified compiler?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 4 Aug 2018, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Our configure.ac has AC_PROG_CXX after the various init's, and lacks
> AC_PROG_CC. We don't do anything with the C compiler because we are a
> C++ library.
>
> How do we tell Autoconf to use the specified C++ compiler for all tests?

This might not work properly since Autoconf produces C code 
for many of its standard tests and the C code might not compile/link 
cleanly with a C++ compiler.  While C++ encompasses C, it is also 
stricter than ANSI C.

You would need to define CC to be the C++ compiler and hope for the 
best.

Bob
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