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

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Mo DeJong wrote:
> Well, something like the following patch would work.
...something like (there are two places the look like problems):

> +ac_cv_prog_cc_g_smaller=`od conftest_smaller.o`

od will suppress rows that contain only 0's, making the size look
different.

> +if test $ac_cv_prog_cc_g_bigger -gt $ac_cv_prog_cc_g_smaller ; then
why do you think the output of `od` will be a single number?
(Perhaps output of 'ls', but that gets into the problem of getting a
format of ls).

Better to simply run a test program that uses only stdio.h (checking if
opening the object file in binary mode works ;-)

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