From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18862 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2011 22:40:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 18853 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Feb 2011 22:40:52 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RFC_ABUSE_POST,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (HELO qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.62.16) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:40:48 +0000 Received: from omta23.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.74]) by qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id DAZd1g0091c6gX851Agn95; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:40:47 +0000 Received: from up.mrs.kithrup.com ([24.4.193.8]) by omta23.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id DAgj1g00z0BKwT43jAglAo; Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:40:47 +0000 Subject: Re: configure oddity Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Mike Stump In-Reply-To: <20110226120740.GE15829@gmx.de> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:52:00 -0000 Cc: Peter O'Gorman , Pedro Alves , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Alexandre Oliva , eblake@redhat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <2082591D-43B2-4CFC-B8FE-1651137FF1AA@comcast.net> <20110222053236.GA9035@gmx.de> <017DD05A-4121-42EF-AD02-08CB1C811B2A@comcast.net> <201102221307.42204.pedro@codesourcery.com> <513C7C86-C0AD-4131-BF7B-AC8E7B05F8E9@comcast.net> <4D640EDD.5050902@pogma.com> <20110226120740.GE15829@gmx.de> To: Ralf Wildenhues X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg01713.txt.bz2 On Feb 26, 2011, at 4:07 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > How about this patch to diagnose such issues early (test case taken from > gnulib)? For mere users and developers, they don't ever need to run autoconf, and so= , no requirement? I only had to as I was editing a configure.ac file, and = wanted to regenerate. Maybe we don't want to bother most uses and develope= rs... though, that said, I don't have the maintainer mode enable to re-gen= erate, but instead was just running my hand, so if we conditionalize the ch= eck on the type of user, we might miss some.