Re: [patch #7911] AX_PTHREAD handles AIX incorrectly

[Thomas Jahns]

Hello,

some comments:

On 01/04/2013 10:16 PM, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #2, patch #7911 (project autoconf-archive):
> 
> I'd make a few changes; see attached.
> 
> * Keep the not-GCC check

I wasn't sure how that interacted with the gxlc wrapper and left it out.

> * Furthermore, do this only on AIX

Does anyone have access to a machine running Linux on POWER or MacOS X on
PowerPC with IBM compilers who could comment on whether this is an AIX-only 
issue?

> * Quoting tweaks

Assignments like

a=$b

don't need quotes even if $b contains white-space, IIRC.

> * Sorted the big case pattern and fixed a couple typos
> * Use AS_EXECUTABLE_P() instead of "test -x"

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.

Regards,
Thomas
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