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Re: Compiling from CVS
Jacek Pliszka writes:
> OK, I solved the problem - I had no gcc-c++ installed. Once I installed it configure went fine.
>
> On the other hand does GSL really need C++ compiler for compilation ?
GSL itself doesn't require a C++ compiler, but at some point the
autotool maintainers changed autoconf/automake to always start looking
for c++ compiler. I am pretty sure they have changed that behavior
back to just requiring a C compiler in more recent versions though,
thankfully.
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Brian Gough