[Python-Dev] configure.in, C++ and Linux (original) (raw)

Mark Hammond MarkH@ActiveState.com
Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:48:09 +1000

I'm pretty new to all of this, so please bear with me.

I create a Setup.in that references some .cpp or .cxx files. When I create the Makefile, the command line generated for building these C++ sources is similar to:

(CCC)(CCC) (CCC)(CCSHARE) ...

However, CCC is never set anywhere....

Looking at configure.in, there appears to be support for setting this CCC variable. However, it was commented out in revision 1.113 - a checkin by Guido, December 1999, with the comment: """ Patch by Geoff Furnish to make compiling with C++ more gentle. (The configure script is regenerated, not from his patch.) """

Digging a little deeper, I find that config/Makefile.pre.in and config/makesetup both have references to CCC that account for the references in my Makefile. Unfortunately, my knowledge doesnt yet stretch to knowing exactly where these files come from :-)

Surely all of this isn't correct. Can anyone tell me what is going on, or what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

Mark.