Re: AC_PROG_CC wrongly setting $GCC=yes while clang is used

[Marko Lindqvist]

On 9 September 2014 00:25, Bastien Chevreux <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 08 Sep 2014, at 23:07 , Marko Lindqvist <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm ginving theoretical autoconf-way answer. I admit that in some
>> individual cases the Right Thing(tm) might be too much work in
>> practice, and the "check version number" hack is justifiable.
>
> Indeed it may be. Delivering the source code with a 352 MiB (compressed, some 
> 2.4 GiB uncompressed) test data set that triggers the error and which 
> computes 17 hrs (on faster faster machines with Xeons and north of 64 GiB RAM 
> (your mileage may vary)) until the result can be checked against the known 
> good outcome in autoconf falls into this category I suppose. I’m not sure the 
> Debian guys would approve having this in their weekly builds :-)
>
> B.

 Maybe gcc regression test set has a bit lighter test added against
the bug in question, added when it was fixed.


 - ML