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From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>,
	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com,
	newlib@sources.redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions.
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 12:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ork7ily2oj.fsf@free.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87adjk83ce.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>

On Dec  5, 2002, Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> AC_NO_EXECUTABLES has two effects: (1) it disables the equivalent of
> AC_PROG_CC_WORKS, which is what we need.  But, (2) it causes autoconf
> to barf if an AC_TRY_LINK test appears anywhere in the script being
> generated.

Please tell me why (2) doesn't make sense.

If AC_PROG_CC_WORKS can't even link a do-nothing program, how would
you expect to get any useful results from AC_TRY_LINK?

> libstdc++-v3/configure.in has lots of AC_TRY_LINK tests.

If we know AC_PROG_CC_WORKS fails, it is a mistake to use AC_TRY_LINK
tests.  Removing the constraint from autoconf will do us no good.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva   Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat GCC Developer                 aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp        oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist                Professional serial bug killer

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-07 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-05 14:36 Nathanael Nerode
2002-12-05 15:19 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-12-06  9:33   ` Tom Tromey
2002-12-07 12:55   ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
2002-12-07 13:19     ` Zack Weinberg
2002-12-09 18:57       ` Alexandre Oliva
2002-12-09 21:52         ` Geoff Keating
2002-12-09 22:10           ` AC_NO_EXECUTABLES is useless for GCC Alexandre Oliva
2002-12-09 22:27             ` Ian Lance Taylor
2002-12-08 13:48     ` [RFC] Update to current automake/autoconf/libtool versions Tom Tromey
     [not found] <9A4230D6-1D26-11D7-BFCA-00039396EEB8@apple.com>
2003-01-12 20:20 ` Alexandre Oliva
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-01 10:39 Nathanael Nerode
     [not found] <20021206005522.GA11907@doctormoo>
     [not found] ` <87of7sa16x.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com>
2002-12-12 13:29   ` Nathanael Nerode
2002-12-13  5:31     ` Alexandre Oliva
2002-12-10 19:33 Henry Nelson
2002-12-05 14:40 Joern Rennecke
2002-12-05 11:08 Nathanael Nerode
2002-12-05 11:31 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-12-05 13:31 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-12-05 14:29   ` Alan Modra
2002-12-05 15:14     ` Ian Lance Taylor
2002-12-05 15:32       ` Alan Modra
2002-12-05 15:45         ` Ian Lance Taylor
2002-12-05 16:26           ` Andrew Cagney
2002-12-05 15:47         ` Mike Stump
2002-12-05 16:30           ` Alan Modra
2002-12-05 16:36             ` Zack Weinberg
2002-12-08  2:48         ` Klee Dienes
2002-12-05 14:07 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-12-06  7:25 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-12-08  3:23 ` Klee Dienes

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