Re: AC_PROG_CC_C_O doesn't work with VC++

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:41:27PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Is there any C, Fortran, or F77 compiler which could create other
> > conftst2.* files if it receives  -o conftst2.$ac_objext ?
> 
> Quite possibly, yes.

OK, so I committed the patch attached below.

> But why not name these files "conftest2.c" etc? [...] We don't need
> to worry about 8.3 file systems any more, on development platforms
> anyway.

I know about 3 different Woe32 environments (though I don't use any):
1) Cygwin
2) MinGW
3) MinGW + MSYS

1) Cygwin doesn't have the 8.3 limitation.
2) MinGW proper doesn't have any POSIX shell, so it cannot run configure.

3) There is an MSYS build of bash.  Though MinGW/MSYS is not ready
to run Autoconf, you can use it to unpack a tarball and run ./configure
there.
Is it possible that ./configure will then run in the 8.3 environment?
I don't know and that is why I am not ready to drop the 8.3 support from
generated ./configure.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan Kasal

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