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

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/17/2010 12:16 AM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> just the other day I built a couple of
> libraries with MSVC with simple
> 
>   autoreconf -i; configure CC=cl CFLAGS=-nologo [more stuff]; make
> 
> sequences.  The autoreconf step will not be needed once the libraries
> in question pick up latest released autotools.

That sounds like things are working, then.  It's no more
hassle than what is regularly required for other relatively-uncommon
configurations.  I expect that the few people who want to build with
MSVC can get used to this sort of thing, just as the few people who
(say) want to build with 64-bit Solaris cc can get used to
"./configure CC='cc -m64'".

> Since it can only cause problems for the poor sods running tools that
> outputs something Microsoftian, I don't see why you care given your
> below statements.

The proposed hack to elide the Microsoft copyright notice is more cruft
to maintain and could well cause failures on non-Microsoft hosts.