On Dec 11, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Chris Lattner wrote: > >> I suppose that plenty >> of things that autoconf does could also be done in a special >> function like this, >> yet they are left to autoconf - I have no idea what the criteria >> are for doing >> something via autoconf or via a runtime test. > > A lot of things can't be done that way, for example finding the path > to an external tool, checking to see if your assembler has some > feature (e.g. .cfi support), etc.
gcc's configure script has examples of both of these. Not that I am holding this up as something to imitate. _______________________________________________ llvm-commits mailing list llvm-commits@cs.uiuc.edu http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvm-commits
