From: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:27:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * configure.ac:  Because of the way the autoconf C++ testing
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* configure.ac:  Because of the way the autoconf C++ testing
works, we need to call the C test first to work in an environment
that has no C++ compiler.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9e329945d..23ff3e865 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2004-08-30  Gary V. Vaughan  <gary@gnu.org>
 
+	* configure.ac:  Because of the way the autoconf C++ testing
+	works, we need to call the C test first to work in an environment
+	that has no C++ compiler.
+
 	* libltdl/lt_dlloader.c (lt_dlloader_remove): Since the return
 	value of this function is often passed to free, don't declare it
 	`const'. Responsibility for this memory is given back to the
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2043d2571..0e13cd996 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -150,6 +150,12 @@ AC_SUBST([DIST_MAKEFILE_LIST])
 ## compiler checks. ##
 ## ---------------- ##
 
+# Need to be sure that we have a working C compiler, otherwise even with
+# a good C compiler: if the following C++ tests fail, the whole libtool
+# build fails!
+AC_PROG_CC
+AC_PROG_CPP
+
 # The Autoconf tests for C++ and Fortran 77 sometimes call AC_MSG_ERROR
 # and we don't want that to be an error whilst creating the libtool script.
 # As these are AC_REQUIREd inside libtool.m4 we can simply call them here