Automake support for ObjC++

[Peter Breitenlohner]

Hi,

are there any plans that Automake supports ObjC++ (as implemented in
gcc-4.x)?

In TeXlive there is one program that requires one ObjC++ (.mm) file when
compiled for Mac OS X.

With present Automake (1.11) that requires an ugly hack:
(1) create a C++ wrapper including the .mm file
(2) define a separate static library containing just one object file with
this wrapper as source.
(3) adding '-ObjC++' to the CXXFLAGS for that library

All that would be much simpler, more transparent and less fragile with
ObjC++ support from Automake.

The implementation of such support seems to be fairly staightforward.
In case there are no such plans, I could prepare some patches for this.
Please let me know.

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>