[Opendnssec-user] Solved: checking for Botan >= v1.8.0 ... no

[Rickard Bellgrim]

> I just ran into this again and did some diving. Turns out it's a little
> obscure error that configure didn't catch before this.
>
> It looks like the configure check for g++ is broken, and it mistakenly
> thinks you have it installed. Then when it uses that in the botan check,
> things break and it is blamed on botan.
>
> The fix is:
>
> yum install gcc-c++

This is apparently a bug in autoconf. A quick googling suggested to
switch the order of AC_PROG_CXX and AC_PROG_CC in configure.ac. Then
it works.

// Rickard