build failure

[John W. Eaton]

On 14-Sep-2012, c. wrote:

| I have
| 
| $ hg id
| d8d7596fc68d tip
| 
| cloned from scratch.
| 
| building on my OSX system fails with the attached long set of link errors.
| any idea how I can try and fix this?

Does the attached change help?

jwe

diff --git a/libgui/Makefile.am b/libgui/Makefile.am
--- a/libgui/Makefile.am
+++ b/libgui/Makefile.am
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@
 
 include link-deps.mk
 
+# Dummy C++ source to cause C++ linking.
+nodist_EXTRA_libgui_la_SOURCES = dummy.cc
+
 liboctgui_la_LIBADD = \
   qterminal/libqterminal.la \
   src/libgui-src.la \
diff --git a/liboctave/Makefile.am b/liboctave/Makefile.am
--- a/liboctave/Makefile.am
+++ b/liboctave/Makefile.am
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@
 
 include link-deps.mk
 
+# Dummy C++ source to cause C++ linking.
+nodist_EXTRA_liboctave_la_SOURCES = dummy.cc
+
 liboctave_la_LIBADD = \
   array/libarray.la \
   cruft/libcruft.la \