[Nix-dev] curl depends on g++? Can we fix this?

[Armijn Hemel]

hi,

after a bit of digging through curl today (with and without Eelco) and
experimenting it seems that curl indeed does require g++ to compile
properly. Now, I'm not sure if that's what we want. The nice thing is
that we only *should* need a barebones C compiler, not a full blown C++
compiler as well.

Setting the environment variable CXXCPP to "gcc -E" makes it barf:

checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... gcc -E
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "gcc -E" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

I'm not sure what the right approach to fix this is. So far I can see
three options:

1 fix it in curl (send bugreport and all)
2 make sure we've got C++ support in our stdenv
3 patch curl beyond belief

I'm not happy with either of them to be honest but I prefer option 2.
If anyone has other solutions I'd be more than happy to hear them!

armijn

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