From c74956453fcfabff605c3fc5d69f9c91d7c18ebf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cosmosninja <cosmosninja@178a84e3-b1eb-0310-8ba1-8eac791a3b58>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:50:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Reverted removing the 'simple c++ program', and instead added
 a C program, since it works fine, which isn't what we want, but it's better
 than nothing.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.code.sf.net/p/supertuxkart/code/trunk/supertuxkart@1388 178a84e3-b1eb-0310-8ba1-8eac791a3b58
---
 configure.ac | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 6009520bb..80049d07a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -29,6 +29,20 @@ AC_PROG_CC
 AC_PROG_CPP
 AC_PROG_CXX
 
+# Do a quick check to ensure the c++ compiler works
+AC_RUN_IFELSE([
+int main()  { return 0; }
+],[],
+[
+   echo
+   echo "Compiling a simple program failed, so something is broken with"
+   echo "the building process. Please check that your system is setup"
+   echo "so it can compile C code."
+   echo
+   echo "Configure aborted."
+   exit
+])
+
 dnl =============================================
 dnl Define debug which enables some cheats
 dnl This should be DISABLED when doing a release!