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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: bsd.prog.mk doesn't link c++ programs correctly?
From:       "M. Warner Losh" <imp () village ! org>
Date:       2002-03-31 20:27:30
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In message: <20020330081410.5af6f2da.corecode@corecode.ath.cx>
            "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx> writes:
: hi hackers!
: 
: i'm in progress in writing a c++ program utilizing bsd.prog.mk
: 
: i wondered why my programs won't link correctly when i don't add a line
: LDFLAGS=-lstdc++
: no i was trying out gcc30 (whoa, slow!) and it didn't want to link with
: or without the above line.
: 
: it seems c++ programs need to be linked via g++ (or c++).
: after delting the above line and inserting a
: CC=${CXX}
: everything works fine, but that's not nice, of course.
: 
: is there any specific reason why linking is done with ${CC}?
: there should be a way to tell that one needs ${CXX} for linkage.

I think that it is very difficult to tell if a program is a C++
program easily, so the CC hack is what is generally used.

Warner

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