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Re: configure speedup proposal: add --assume-c99 and --assume-posix2008
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Tim Rice |
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Re: configure speedup proposal: add --assume-c99 and --assume-posix2008 flags |
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Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:03:34 -0700 (PDT) |
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Alpine 2.11 (UW2 23 2013-08-11) |
On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, John Spencer wrote:
> > having an option like --assume-c99 could provide a shortcut so all checks
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> I don't like any approach which hard-codes assumptions in Autoconf. Hard-coded
> assumptions can easily be wrong and configure scripts could be used ten years
> later without being re-generated with the latest rules.
Agreed.
An example is xz-5.0.5. Configure errors out complaining of no c99 compiler
but after fooling configure the package builds fine using a c89 compiler.
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