[petsc-dev] Compiling C code with C compiler

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Sean Farley wrote:

> >
> > But why would I do that? The whole point of  invoking 'clang++' is to to
> > compile the
> >  code as 'C++' - not as 'C'
> 
> 
> Why not try to compile C code with a C compiler and C++ code with a C++
> compiler? (Perhaps I missed a previous discussion?)

What did you expect when you used --with-clanguage=C++ for your buid? Or
were you misunderstanding what this options means wrt PETSc build?

Satish

>  Dmitry brought up an
> interesting question of which I don't know the answer off the top of my
> head.
> 
> Dmitry, is there a small code example that shows this?
> 
> Sean
>