Re: [PATCH] Ignore boilerplate logo from MSVC on stderr.

[Peter Rosin]

Hi Ralf,

Den 2010-08-17 22:01 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
> * Peter Rosin wrote on Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 09:41:06PM CEST:
>> Den 2010-08-16 21:36 skrev Eric Blake:
>>> Rather than doing a sed for a particular regex, I would be much more
>>> comfortable with a comparison of the two outputs.  Less chance of
>>> Microsoft changing their output in such a way that would foil yet
>>> another regex.
>>
>> Yes, cmp would be nicer. But the current autoconf code is not at all
>> rigged for doing that easily. It's way beyond me anyway, and I dare not
>> attempt such an overhaul...
> 
> That's not a valid argument for not going this route though.  ;-)
> I'll try to look at it next weekend unless beaten to.
> 
> Also, note that this is really only relevant for AC_PROG_{CC,CXX} but
> not so much for other Autoconf macros: as soon as the 'compile' prefix
> is used, -nologo gets added.
> 
> Maybe we should rethink things and suggest using a AM_PROG_CC_WRAPPER
> macro that can somehow work before AC_PROG_CC and add the wrapper ...
> in that case it would have to be different from AM_PROG_CC_C_O.

Is the weekend over yet? :-)

Cheers,
Peter