From e3b19f880f6be760bd07609765d72e5b174f5ef4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman@kitware.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:17:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] use cxx compiler on sgi to build static libs

---
 Templates/configure | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Templates/configure b/Templates/configure
index 3ee74da53..0c57d1a39 100755
--- a/Templates/configure
+++ b/Templates/configure
@@ -3173,6 +3173,14 @@ case $system in
       CMAKE_AR="$CXX"
       CMAKE_AR_ARGS="-xar -o"
    fi
+   IRIX*)
+   if test $ac_cv_prog_gxx = yes; then
+	:
+   else
+      echo "Using $CXX -xar -o for creating .a libraries"
+      CMAKE_AR="$CXX"
+      CMAKE_AR_ARGS="-ar -o"
+   fi
 esac