autoconf-2.61's AC_LINK_IFELSE with MinGW cross-compilers

Hello, The autoconf-2.61 release added a 'test -x' to AC_LINK_IFELSE and that has broken MinGW based cross-compilers using autoconf packages in MSYS. The change is: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/autoconf/lib/autoconf/general.m4?root=autoconf&r1=1.931&r2=1.932 RTEMS uses AC_LINK_IFELSE

Re: autoconf-2.61's AC_LINK_IFELSE with MinGW cross-compilers

Paul Eggert wrote: I want it to evaluate as false on platforms where 'test -x' doesn't work as Posix-conforming scripts would expect. Can we assume a chmod is present ? So on Linux: $ set -x; touch a.out; chmod +x a.out; test -x; echo $? + touch a.out + chmod +x a.out + test -x + echo 0 0 a