On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 23:54, Alex Remily <alex.rem...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe it is for cross compilation, owing to the comments in the > makefile: > # for cross-compilation on Ubuntu, install the g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 package I think you could also argue that the other way around - ie. those are the packages you need if you want to cross-compile C++.
I quickly tried replacing CXX with CC on a Mac running OS 10.15 and, admittedly both failed, but in the same way, finding "LibreSSL" in the version string rather than "OpenSSL". This is mentioned in BUILDING.txt and I assume it could be fixed by following the suggestion in that file, but I can't risk messing anything up just at the moment. So I don't think in that case using the C linker instead of the C++ linker caused any problems. This seems like a bit of a "Chesterton's Fence" to me! Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
