On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Sean Farley wrote:

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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