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Re: AC_PROG_CC not working
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Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: AC_PROG_CC not working |
Date: |
10 Oct 2000 14:03:02 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Channel Islands) |
>>>>> "Morten" == Morten Eriksen <address@hidden> writes:
Morten> One argument for using the output of uname in some form
Morten> instead of the current scheme is that the Cygwin test (at
Morten> least) will fail if not using GCC as the compiler. I'm using
Morten> MSVC++ cl.exe now, and the Cygwin check gives me a false
Morten> negative because it's checking for the current compiler to
Morten> define __CYGWIN__.
Arg!
Morten> (BTW, isn't it bad style of Autoconf to need to check for
Morten> Cygwin, Mingw and EMX OS/2 in the first place? I can see the
Morten> result is used in the AC_EXEEXT check -- but this macro is
Morten> fubar anyhow and in bad need of a rewrite.)
I don't know. To be honest, I'm starting to despair: there are way
too many things that need to be completely redesigned in Autoconf, but
*we can't wait*. 2.50 is already significantly superior to 2.13, and
we need to stop somewhere. We need to stop for a while, knowing it's
far from being perfect, and then, for 2.51, address one single big
issue, and so on for the other releases.
IMHO, the major tasks for 2.51 are:
- abstracting autoconf, adhoc, autotest into autoscript or something
- redesigning the compiler testing suite.
Later:
- specializing macros (AC_CHECK_FUNCS(fnmatch) uses AC_FUNC_FNMATCH
- autorescan (checks that a configure.in is `complete')
- autosystem.h
- etc.
Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Alexandre Oliva, 2000/10/10
- Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Akim Demaille, 2000/10/10
- Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Akim Demaille, 2000/10/10
- Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Morten Eriksen, 2000/10/10
- Re: AC_PROG_CC not working,
Akim Demaille <=
- Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Thomas E. Dickey, 2000/10/10
- Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Akim Demaille, 2000/10/10
Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Bob Friesenhahn, 2000/10/10
Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Akim Demaille, 2000/10/10
Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Gary V. Vaughan, 2000/10/10
Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Akim Demaille, 2000/10/11
Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Gary V. Vaughan, 2000/10/12
Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Peter Eisentraut, 2000/10/11
Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Morten Eriksen, 2000/10/11
Re: AC_PROG_CC not working, Pavel Roskin, 2000/10/11