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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:07:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: rbb@apache.org
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Subject: Re: compatibility with C++ modules
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So I haven't really looked into how it works, but have you looked at
mod_cplusplus?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/modcplusplus/

Ryan

On 6 Sep 2002, Jeff Trawick wrote:

> At about the same time recently that I was doing horrible,
> uncommittable hacks to the build to get Apache 2.0 to support C++
> modules on HP-UX, somebody wrote a PR against Apache 1.3 pointing out
> the same issue I encountered: If httpd is to properly support C++
> modules, it may need to be linked with something other than the C
> compiler front-end, depending on the compiler and the platform.
> 
> Though we probably don't want to be in the business of pretending to
> support C++ modules in general, they certainly work with Apache on
> some platforms and we could at least make it simple for the user to
> specify the command to invoke to link httpd.  This would default to
> the C compiler, but could be forced by the user to be g++ or aCC or
> whatever.
> 
> ?????  --with-httpd-linker=g++  ?????
> 
> 

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