Re: Automake support for ObjC++

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> AFAIK nobody else is working on patches yet; they would be very welcome.
> I suppose adding ObjC++ support should be very straightforward.  Thanks.

Hi Ralf,

in the meantime I have created a patch for Automake support of ObjC++. It
was indeed very straightforward.  In a small toy example this works to my
satifaction (of course only together with Autoconf from git plus the patch
from earlier today).

> > I forgot to mention: of course, this would require that Autoconf supports
> > ObjC++.  Are you aware of any plans into that direction?
>
> Nope.  Since 2.64 might not be far away, you might want to do this
> first.  (Otherwise, there is also the possibility for an
> AM_PROG_OBJCXX.)

If the Autoconf patch makes it into 2.64, that then will be a requirement
for ObjC++ support in Automake.

Otherwise it is still possible to slightly rewrite the present Automake
patch such that is uses AM_PROG_OBJCXX.  However, that still requires
autoconf-2.64 because otherwise aclocal can't trace the macro named
'AC_LANG(Objective C++)' which is part of A[CM]_PROG_OBJCXX.

Shall I send the patch right now so you can inspect it, or shall I wait
until autoconf-2.64 is released?

Regards
Peter