[sane-devel] problem in compiling on cygwin

[Giuseppe Sacco]

Il ven, 2004-04-02 alle 18:58, Henning Meier-Geinitz ha scritto:
> Hi,
[...]
> I haven't heard about that problem until now. Can you show us the
> complete output of configure and also config.log?
> 
> Doesn't use cygwin gcc? I'd expect "checking for gcc... gcc" in this
> case. And it looks strange to check for the "C++" preprocessor if
> there is no C++-compiler.

I'll have access to that machine on monday, so expect a reply next week.

In the meantime, in http://www.spinics.net/lists/ac/msg00396.html
I found that:

> I do know that libtool 1.5 will switch the current language to C++
> and will attempt to test the C++ pre-processor regardless of
> whether your project uses C++.  Are you using libtool 1.5?
>
> When the project doesn't use C++, treating the failed C++ "/lib/cpp"
> as a fatal error is atrocious.
>
> Development libtool allows you to specify which languages to configure
> so you can limit configuration to C.

I found more information about this in
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2001-07/msg00159.html 

Bye,
Giuseppe