On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:56:16AM +0100, Daniel Egger wrote: > On 27.02.2005, at 01:19, Sven Neumann wrote: > > >>just curious, is it expected that configuration of a GIMP > >>build will fail if configure cannot find a C++ compiler? > > >That question would better be asked on the autoconf list. While you > >are on it, ask them why there are checks for a fortran compiler. I > >don't think we ask for any of those. > > It's a difference whether useless checks take place and are > ignored or the compiler bails out on something that isn't > needed at all. FWIW I haven't seen any other project using > autoconf as well fail on this machine because there wasn't a > C++ compiler installed so I assume that the GIMP (or maybe > the GNOME stuff?) is doing something different or even wrong. You're making a bad assumption then. Any app which uses libtool 1.5 has this issue, as a trivial web search will reveal. There's really nothing we can do, short of updating to a post 1.5 libtool when the libtool maintainers actually release one. -Yosh
