On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, 01:02 Martin Sebor, <mse...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So I wonder if changing configure to either implicitly use a command > line option for its tests or set an environment variable to request > a permissive mode might be a way out. >
Having a different set of rules for configure scripts is bound to fail at some point. The obvious example is a configure check to see if functions with implicit prototypes can be called. That would work in permissive mode, but fail when trying to run the compiler later. > >
