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

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,
  patch forgotten, sorry. Attached to this mail.
Stepan

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:06:53PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> 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

autoconf-20060531-ac_cv_exeext.patch
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