Re: Bugfix for _AC_OBJEXT

2000-09-06 Thread Morten Eriksen
"Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, it doesn't. Many of the initial configure tests fail on > Cygwin because of this mess, I seem to recall. None of the important ones, I believe (my patch fixes the only case I could find). There are some ugly hacks in Autoconf to take specia

Re: Bugfix for _AC_OBJEXT

2000-09-06 Thread Lars J. Aas
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 02:43:03PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: : | > I'd accept patches that do what you suggest too: have _AC_EXEEXT be : | > independent from AC_LINK_IFELSE, have AC_LINK|COMPILE_IFELSE require : | > what they need, [...] : | : | I looked at the code, but the macros that does th

Re: Bugfix for _AC_OBJEXT

2000-09-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Sep 6, 2000, Morten Eriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * acspecific.m4: _AC_OBJEXT was using AC_COMPILE_IFELSE, but > AC_COMPILE_IFELSE depends on the value of $ac_objext. This > dependency deadlock is broken by making _AC_OBJEXT independent > of AC_COMPILE_I

Re: Bugfix for _AC_OBJEXT

2000-09-06 Thread Akim Demaille
| Thanks. I've got an updated version attached below, with the only | additions that AC_OBJEXT is called before AC_EXEEXT in AC_PROG_CC, | AC_PROG_CXX and AC_PROG_F77 (AC_EXEEXT uses $ac_objext). Good! | > I'd accept patches that do what you suggest too: have _AC_EXEEXT be | > independent from

Re: Bugfix for _AC_OBJEXT

2000-09-06 Thread Morten Eriksen
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Meanwhile, I OK your patch. Thanks. I've got an updated version attached below, with the only additions that AC_OBJEXT is called before AC_EXEEXT in AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX and AC_PROG_F77 (AC_EXEEXT uses $ac_objext). > I'd accept patches that do what

Re: Bugfix for _AC_OBJEXT

2000-09-05 Thread Akim Demaille
> "Morten" == Morten Eriksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Morten> As I said, a hornet's nest. Was anyone on the list aware of Morten> these bugs? Yep, I am, and I agree it's frightening. Nevertheless I think that in the future, since we plan to rewrite most of the compiler related macros, we