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
