id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
2004,Where did Configure.pl option '--cxx' go to?,jkeenan,jkeenan,"In ''Configure.pl'', we have command-line option `cxx` documented as follows:
{{{
       ""--cxx=(compiler)""
           Specify which C++ compiler to use (for ICU).
}}}
In ''lib/Parrot/Configure/Options/Conf.pm'', we have this:
{{{
   --cxx=(compiler)     Use the given C++ compiler
}}}
And `cxx` is an element of `@Parrot::Configure::Options::Conf::Shared::shared_valid_options`.

But I can no longer find any place in the configuration system where the value provided to `--cxx` gets assigned to anything in the `data` part of the Parrot::Configure object.  Hence, it never appears in ''lib/Parrot/Config/Generated.pm'' or ''config_lib.pir'' (except in the entries for `configure_args`).
{{{
$> perl  Configure.pl --cxx=abc
$> grep -nE '(abc|cxx)' lib/Parrot/Config/Generated.pm
102:  'configure_args' => '""--cxx=abc""'
}}}
Didn't we used to be able to assign our choice of C++ compiler to `cxx`?  If so, does anyone know why we can do so no longer?  Or when this option slipped away?

Thank you very much.

kid51 
",bug,closed,normal,,configure,3.0.0,medium,fixed,,,,applied,all