Re: AC_PROG_CC not working

[Peter Eisentraut]

Akim Demaille writes:

> So I am back to something I raised some time ago: why the heck do we
> have to compile to recognize Mingw etc.?  Can't we just uname?  While
> anti-Autoconf (and btw, frankly, compiling __MINGW32__ makes no big
> difference to me), it seems better in that, for instance, it makes it
> possible to enable the support of these kind of machines without
> requiring a C compiler.

ISTM that you don't need uname either.  Why not just compile some file and
check what you got, like non-Cygwin and non-MinGW32 do?  I mean if you do
cc conftest.c -o conftest, and afterwards there is no file "conftest", but
there is a file "conftest.exe" that wasn't there before, that should be
pretty conclusive, no?

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