[CMake] -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER:string="g++"

[Bill Hoffman]

Brandon Van Every wrote:
> On 8/8/07, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
>   
>> On 2007-08-08 21:52-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote:
>>
>>     
>>>> one of the c files includes a c++ file that is why I need to compile my c
>>>> files with g++ and not gcc. One of the solution would be to rename my c
>>>> file cpp or cxx
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Marie
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> You can also set the language for that .c file to CXX.
>>> set_source_file_properties(foo.c PROPERTIES LANGUAGE CXX)
>>>       
>> Bill, the LANGUAGE property for set_source_files_properties is not
>> documented.  Please fix!
>>     
>
> I filed bug #5393 a little over 2 weeks ago.  We first raised this
> issue on the mailing list 6 weeks before that.  Asking to have it
> fixed doesn't do any good.  I've filed lots of "Content" bugs over the
> past year, now called "text" bugs.  Some are trivial to fix, others
> would take elbow grease to deal with.  Almost none have been dealt
> with.  We need a better way for the community to handle this, because
> Kitware isn't going to deal with most of them.  We've had threads
> about documentation infrastructure in the past 2 months.  People have
> floated some ideas but nobody, including myself, has stepped up to the
> plate.
>
> I've raised the priority on this bug to "high" because it keeps coming
> up over and over again.
>   
To fix this I have to move the fix onto the branch.   The web pages for 
the online-docs are
automatically generated from the branch.   I will get to it.  But, when 
something is fixed
in CVS, I sort of consider it fixed.  This particular problem has come 
up several times,
and I will address it soon....


-Bill