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Re: AC_PROG_CC not working


From: Morten Eriksen
Subject: Re: AC_PROG_CC not working
Date: 12 Oct 2000 13:53:03 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) Emacs/20.3

* Pavel Roskin
| Since EXEEXT="" makes "cp" fail it's not a good choice. So instead
| of doing "test contest -ef contest.exe" do "cp contest contest.ac_"
| and reverse the logic (i.e. if "cp" fails we use ".exe")

Well, I don't think this is such a good idea. What if the Cygwin port
of ``cp'' is suddenly made to work correctly with that filesystem
voodoo Cygwin does, but other programs are still defunct?

Instead of chasing possible problems with Cygwin's little magic trick,
isn't it better to just try to detect it and circumvent it completely?
(As I try to do with the AC_EXEEXT patch.)

Regards,
Morten



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