On Mon Mar 19 15:59:44 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Monday 19 March 2007 12:22, Andy Dougherty wrote: > > > I found the ticket that introduced this failing behavior, so I'm resending > > my message below with a fixed-up subject line to enter into RT. In brief, > > this patch incorrectly assumes that all compilers accept a '-h', '--help', > > or '/?' switch. Any compiler that doesn't is deemed 'not found', and > > there is no way to override it. Extending the list of options to try is > > not a sensible forward-looking portable strategy. > > I realize this patch precludes cross-compilation at the moment, but does it > work better for you, Andy?
Applied the patch with some modifications so that it runs correctly on Windows in r21212. Tested on Linux x86, Windows and Cygwin. Paul
