Re: How to force libtool to use CXX mode?

    Automake does have a critical bug in that for a target which only 
    optionally has C++ sources, that target is always linked using C++. 

So it should only use C++ if the "option" is selected?
Can you provide a test tree?

    Without this issue, the trick of including an empty optional C++
    source file in the build would work.

I don't yet understand how all this is playing together ... -k