On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:24:08PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
: >>>>> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: Mo> I ran into a problem like the one you describe. It seems : that
: Mo> the CVS version of autoconf does not work with : VC++ at all.
:
: Lars> This is *bad* news for me, but probably not for Autoconf
: Lars> development, as I'll have to work on fixing this...
:
: Mo, Lars, could you give a look at the patch 25-* and see if it works?
:
: I don't recall well why we recently chose .cc for C++. ISTR it was
: because before we used `.C' which is not a good choice in case
: insensitive environments. Ossama had suggested `.cpp', but I chose
: `.cc' because `locate(1)' on my system found more `.cc' and no `.cpp'.
:
: I don't know if moving to .cpp is safe everywhere. Hence this patch.
I did a grep on conftest.cc in configure, and still got two redirections
and two compilations with that filename. All those are explicitly set
in aclang.m4 without use of $ac_ext. The Cygwin-test failed for MSVC++
too.
Lars J
