Re: AC_CONFIG_LINKS and MSVC

[Noah Misch]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 03:43:39PM -0700, David Byron wrote:
> AC_C_BIGENDIAN(ENDIAN=be,ENDIAN=le)
> 
> doesn't work for me using MSVC.  The test program #includes sys/params.h
> which MSVC can't find.  config.log has:
> 
> conftest.c(33) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file:
> 'sys/param.h': No such file or directory 
> 
> It happens to choose little endian but I didn't want to depend on that.

That test program can fail safely; AC_C_BIGENDIAN has fallback code for when
sys/param.h is unavailable or does not define the relevant constants.