On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:29:46AM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Am Montag, 1. November 2004 20:19 schrieb Andre Poenitz: > > This means the MS compiler is not usable to compile LyX because it fails > > autoconf tests that are not exactling testing what they are supposed to > > test (usability of certain headers in this case). > > > > Questions: Is this commonly known? Maybe ignored for political reasons? > > Maybe you should ask the autoconf people?
Maybe. > I did not know that auto* is usable on The Dark Side at all. It works as usual under cygwin. That's the dark grey area on the Dark Side... > What do they create there? Well, nothing. Or better: auto* under cygwin produces gnu makefiles. I just want it to use 'cl' instead of 'g++'. After all, adjusting a project to the existing tools on a given machine is the whole reason fr the existance of autotools, isn't it? > makefiles for MS make or project files for Visual Studio? A Makefile for GNU make calling the MS compiler (cl) would do just fine. The point is that cl is quite a bit faster than g++ and with the latest release it even qualifies as 'C++' compiler. > > If so, are there work arounds? And lastly: Where is the code produced by > > autoconf stored? In the autocon binary? In some .m4 file? If so, where? > > I can find someting similar in /usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/c.m4 (autoconf > 2.59). What line? I don't see anything similar in this file... Andre'
