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FreeBSD prefers to call the C++ compiler c++ (just like Linux, Darwin, ..)

Adriaan de Groot requested to merge adridg/cmake:freebsd-compiler-name into master

This is an upstreaming-request for cmake patches applied by FreeBSD.

Original request to default to c++ for the C++ compiler, instead of CC: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203793

The change was added to FreeBSD's packaging of CMake with version 3.9: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=449853

It'd be nice to have this upstream so that downstream CMake needs less patching. (In years gone by, there were supported FreeBSD releases with gcc or with clang, and this was kind of confused; now that every supported released version runs clang things are more simple).

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