Page MenuHome GnuPG
Create Task
Maniphest T969

libgpg-error/libgcrypt: configure: useless dependency on C++
Closed, InvalidPublic
Actions

Description

configure script of libgpg-error does not run without a C++ compiler installed,
throwing "C++ compiler fails sanity check". However, when manually "fixing" the
configure script to not exit when it can't find a compiler and instead continue,
libgpg-error configures and builds properly. This makes it a bug.

Details

Version
1.4.3

Event Timeline

penma added a project: Feature Request.Nov 18 2008, 9:42 PM
penma set Version to 1.6.
penma added a subscriber: penma.
penma added a comment.Nov 18 2008, 9:50 PM

configure script of libgcrypt (and libgpg-error) does not run without a C++
compiler installed, throwing "C++ compiler fails sanity check". However, when
manually "fixing" the configure script to not exit when it can't find a compiler
and instead continue, libgpg-error and libgcrypt configure and build properly,
even without a C++ compiler.

penma renamed this task from libgpg-error: configure: useless dependency on C++ to libgpg-error/libgcrypt: configure: useless dependency on C++.Nov 18 2008, 9:50 PM
penma changed Version from 1.6 to 1.4.3.
penma added a project: libgcrypt.
• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Nov 25 2008, 5:07 PM

This looks pretty much like an autoconf bug. However, a broken instalaltion of
a compiler is a bad sign for a system, so one might even be thabnkful for such a
message ;-).

Would you mind to take it to the autoconf folks? We can't do anything about it.

penma closed this task as Invalid.Nov 25 2008, 5:30 PM
penma raised the priority of this task from Wishlist to Normal.
penma removed a project: Feature Request.

As found out after having filed this bug, it's the libtool devs who have failed
it: http://osdir.com/ml/gnu.libtool.bugs/2005-05/msg00249.html .. so now I at
least know I don't have to bother the people behind the projects that use
libtool with it.

Oh and the installation is just as broken as me, that is, I've just installed
plain GCC without the C++ compiler (and the others).