* Peter O'Gorman wrote on Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:37:20PM CET: > > Just looking to put in an honest check for -single_module support into > libtool.m4 and I see this in _LT_COMPILER_OPTION: > printf "$lt_simple_compile_test_code" > conftest.$ac_ext > > with similar usage elsewhere. > > Why do we go to so much effort to find a working echo if printf works > everywhere? :-p
I know, at some point I'd seen it, too. :-/ We should still try to search for a builtin though. Not that we're doing that very well now, but it makes a huge difference in config.status execution time. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool