> From: Len Makin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:56:24 +1100
> What about something like if or case to check > # Check for NEC SX compiler > if cc -c -V 2>&1 | grep '/SX' > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then > # action for NEC I'd rather that Autoconf continues to avoid that kind of approach. Once you start counting compiler versions, there are thousands of C compilers out there. We don't want to check for every one, and we certainly don't want to maintain Autoconf code that knows each compiler's quirks. > I still think the suggestion is reasonable - use $SED not sed > wherever possible We've managed to avoid that complication for many years, and we don't need it here either (the real problem was the use of a sed construct that is documented to be unportable). Perhaps we'll need that feature eventually, but I hope not. Autoconf is too complicated already.
