Reverting of #2004 and #1457 (Configure.pl --cxx)

[Vasily Chekalkin]

Hello.

We can ask. But it will mean that we'll be blocked on our side until
after "extended LLVM C API" will be developed. Do we want to wait for
about 1 year before getting anything useful?

-- 
Bacek.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Andrew Whitworth
<wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this the kind of issue we can talk to the LLVM developers about,
> and get them to update their API? LLVM people may be interested in
> helping us out.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Vasily Chekalkin <bacek at bacek.com> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> We used to support --cxx option in Configure.pl which was removed in
>> #2004 and #1457 trac tickets. I think it was a mistake. We have to
>> provide way of specifying some kind of functional C++ compiler for C++
>> extensions. For example LLVM bindings/jit. I'm slightly blocked on
>> jit_prototype from testing purpose because LLMV C API doesn't provide
>> enough functionality comparing C++ API.
>>
>> --
>> Bacek
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