On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 02:43:03PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
: | > I'd accept patches that do what you suggest too: have _AC_EXEEXT be
: | > independent from AC_LINK_IFELSE, have AC_LINK|COMPILE_IFELSE require
: | > what they need, [...]
: |
: | I looked at the code, but the macros that does the various compiler
: | checks doesn't look "ready" for this change -- in particular, it looks
: | hard to do the necessary changes without breaking the newly introduced
: | AC_NO_EXECUTABLES hack.
:
: | So I'm afraid I'll leave that mess alone for now. :^/
:
: I'll do the same. It works, that all we are asking for at the moment.
Actually, it doesn't. Many of the initial configure tests fail on Cygwin
because of this mess, I seem to recall. The tests fail, but the configure
script continues and gets back "on the right track" quite early, so it
doesn't matter too much.
Lars J
