Re: Preserving generated files

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:51 AM, A.P. Horst <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is there a possibility to preserve the generated source and output file
> generated by the many tests a configure does? In particular the "checking
> for dependency style of [compiler]" does a lot of tests, but it is very hard
> to find out what is going wrong. The compiler supports makefile style
> dependency generation, but configure fails to recognize it. I am trying to
> figure out what goes wrong, but the config.log has only a few lines
> dedicated to this test, and keeps silent on what tests it performs and why
> it fails.

The best thing to do, in my opinion, would be to search for "checking
dependency style" in the configure script and try and figure out what
it is doing with the compiler you're using.