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

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ralf Corsepius on 4/12/2007 10:43 AM:
> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 05:12 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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>> According to Ralf Corsepius on 4/12/2007 4:46 AM:
>>> To me this reads as: MinGW and Cygwin's "test -x" are broken.
>> Give an example where cygwin's "test -x" is broken.
> RTEMS users have reported it for both MinGW and for Cygwin.
> 
> Cf. these are the Cygwin variant:
> http://rtems.rtems.org/pipermail/rtems-users/2007-March/017888.html

OK, thanks for the pointer - that mail is an example of a cross compiler,
run on cygwin, but generating non-cygwin files and on a file system that
lacks executable permission bits.  It provides more proof that
cross-compilers need not do the -x check, so the recent checkin that only
turns off -x checking for cross-compilers was correct.  I was more worried
that you might have come up with an instance where a cygwin native
executable test was failing.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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