On 7 Aug 2000, Assar Westerlund wrote:
> AC_TRY_CPP only looks at stderr of the result from the preprocessor,
> not at stdout. Solaris' broken cc, aka /usr/ucb/cc, prints a message
> to stdout to say that it's actually not installed, so you end up
> trying to run that instead. The patch for looking at both stdout and
> stderr is appended at end of this mail.
>
> Next question is if it's really wise to fallback on `/lib/cpp' without
> checking that it works?
A better question would be "is it wise to fallback on /lib/cpp even
if it does not exist?" Under Cygwin, /lib/cpp does not exist. That
makes it impossible to use autoconf with the VC++ compiler under
Cygwin (with C++ code).
Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc
