On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, John Spencer wrote: > > having an option like --assume-c99 could provide a shortcut so all checks > > I don't like any approach which hard-codes assumptions in Autoconf. Hard-coded > assumptions can easily be wrong and configure scripts could be used ten years > later without being re-generated with the latest rules.
Agreed. An example is xz-5.0.5. Configure errors out complaining of no c99 compiler but after fooling configure the package builds fine using a c89 compiler. -- Tim Rice Multitalents t...@multitalents.net _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
