Re: aclang.m4 problem (Cygwin + VC++)

[Lars J. Aas]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:43:58PM +0200, Lars J. Aas wrote:
: On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:24:08PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
: : 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.

BTW, I believe it was on one of those explicit filename tests it failed,
IIRC.

  Lars J