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Re: INSTALL should tell about particular systems, HP-UX cc


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: INSTALL should tell about particular systems, HP-UX cc
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:15:38 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14)

* Bob Proulx wrote on Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:10:19PM CEST:
> 
> I think enough time has passed that today the least surprising
> behavior would be for AC_PROG_CC to require an ANSI compiler and fail
> if one is not found.

That may well be the case.  But if we cop out by default for pre-C89
compilers, I think it would be wise to at least leave an escape route
for that (hypothetically) odd compiler package using Autoconf and
wishing to allow to be built with a pre-C89 compiler itself.

Cheers,
Ralf




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