Re: AC_PROG_CC_C_O doesn't work with VC++

[Paul Eggert]

Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:

> A question: is there any reason to use  rm -f conftst2.*
> instead of  rm -f conftst2.$ac_objext
> Is there any C, Fortran, or F77 compiler which could create other
> conftst2.* files if it receives  -o conftst2.$ac_objext ?

Quite possibly, yes.

But why not name these files "conftest2.c" etc?  Then the
already-existing "rm -f conftest*" will clean them up.  We don't need
to worry about 8.3 file systems any more, on development platforms
anyway.