Re: Bug#368012: mingw crosscompilation broken with autoconf-2.59.cvs.2006.05.13-1

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:26:41PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > +# ... We should not override ac_cv_exeext if it was
> > > +# cached, so that the user can short-circuit this test for compilers
> > > +# unknown to Autoconf.

... but it would be better if this override were done by assigning
EXEEXT on the configure line, not by assigning ac_cv_exeext.

Of course I'm against any change to this fragile code before the
release, but I think that the current hack should not be documented.

Thus I propose to remove a tiny fraction of Ralf's work, see the
attached patch.

(I apologize that I haven't noticed it earlier.)

Stepan