remove --cxx option to Configure.pl

[coke]

This option appears to be a remnant from when we included ICU in core and built it ourselves.

Specifying it has no impact on the parrot build. Comments in config/init/defaults.pm hint at the original ICU purpose of this flag.

[coke]

patch to remove -cxx option

[coke]

Attached a patch which seems to do the job; Unfortunately, after applying the patch, t/steps/inter/progs-04.t fails.

Assigning to our configure test expert to figure out why.

[jkeenan]

Replying to coke:

Attached a patch which seems to do the job; Unfortunately, after applying the patch, t/steps/inter/progs-04.t fails.

I think all that was lacking was that cxx was not deleted from one location in that test file. When I did the following:

Index: t/steps/inter/progs-04.t
===================================================================
--- t/steps/inter/progs-04.t	(revision 45319)
+++ t/steps/inter/progs-04.t	(working copy)
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@
         linkflags
         ldflags
         libs
-        cxx
     |
     )
 {

... the test passed.

[jkeenan]

Coke's patch modified to remove one more instance of 'cxx'

[jkeenan]

Coke: If the modified patch works for you, you can apply and close TT.

Thanks.

kid51

[bubaflub]

modified_remove_cxx.diff applied in r45323