I'll investigate further. Most of my experience with autoconf is with Cygwin
and MinGW and I don't remember seeing anything that detailed.
Earnie.
--- Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Earnie> config.log doesn't contain the compilers failure if I remember
> Earnie> correctly. Only where in configure that it is.
>
> Hm, what do you mean?
>
> /tmp % cat configure.in
> AC_INIT
> AC_PROG_CC
> AC_TRY_COMPILE([int main () { syntax error}])
> /tmp % ~ace/autoconf -m ~ace
> /tmp % ./configure && cat config.log
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
> checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
> checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
>
> configure:593: checking for gcc
> configure:718: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works
> configure:734: gcc -o conftest conftest.c 1>&5
> configure:760: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler
> configure:765: checking whether we are using GNU C
> configure:774: gcc -E conftest.c
> configure:792: checking whether gcc accepts -g
> configure:834: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c 1>&5
> configure: In function `main':
> configure:824: `syntax' undeclared (first use in this function)
> configure:824: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> configure:824: for each function it appears in.)
> configure:824: parse error before `error'
> configure: At top level:
> configure:827: redefinition of `main'
> configure:824: `main' previously defined here
> configure: failed program was:
> #line 823 "configure"
> #include "confdefs.h"
> int main () { syntax error}
> int
> main ()
> {
>
> ;
> return 0;
> }
>
>
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