Re: patch (CC -c -o)

[Tim Rice]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Stepan Kasal wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> first, your patch is against Automake, not Autoconf, so let's move to
> bug-automake.

Sorry, grep'd bugs in the source and pasted the wrong addeess in e-mail.

> 
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:03:53PM -0700, Tim Rice wrote:
> > Some CC compilers do not like -c -o options together.
> 
> Automake contains code to circumvent this limitation for C compilers.
> And it is much more complicated than your patch.
> 
> (Your patch means that -o would not be used with any C++ compiler, and that
> would be a big performance hit with some projects, at least.)
> 
> It seems that this limitation was not yet observed with C++ compilers.
> Could you please post the version of your OS and C++ compiler?

UnixWare 2.03 (or any UnixWare 2.x, probably 1.x too)
CC: INFO: C++ Compilation System 2.0 10/06/95 (u203c)

This platform is way old.
So if it's more complex than the patch I sent, I withdraw the patch request.
Don't waste your time on this one.

> 
> Have a nice day,
>       Stepan Kasal
> 
> 
> 

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