Re: [gnu.utils.bug] AC_PROG_CC_G, et al, are not very robust

[Assar Westerlund]

Mo DeJong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Perhaps this is a silly idea, but why don't you just run the compiler
> without the -g flag to make sure that it created a conftest.o file,
> and then run with the -g flag but check that the produced conftest.o
> is larger than the first one.

Yes, but if we're just testing if the compiler supports `-g', why
should we need to test the size of the generated file?  Can't we just
run `cc -g' and see if it produces an object file?

/assar