Re: Where did the Cygwin and Mingw checks go? (patch suggestion)

[Lars J. Aas]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 03:50:58PM -0500, Paul Berrevoets wrote:
: This is ok for AC_OBJEXT, but for AC_EXEEXT please take into consideration 
that on
: UWIN (which uses a cc wrapper for MSVC), the compiler also generates a .pdb 
file,
: which if you don't filter it out along with .obj, would be used as the 
extension
: for executables.

As I mentioned under another subject, Borland C++ creates a .tds file that 
destroys
the current test.

How about something like this?

  Lars J

Index: acspecific.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/acspecific.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.316
diff -u -r1.316 acspecific.m4
--- acspecific.m4       2000/11/17 16:45:24     1.316
+++ acspecific.m4       2000/11/22 21:15:18
@@ -1228,11 +1228,15 @@
 [AC_CACHE_CHECK([for object suffix], ac_cv_objext,
 [AC_LANG_CONFTEST([AC_LANG_PROGRAM()])
 if AC_TRY_EVAL(ac_compile); then
-  for ac_file in conftest.*; do
-  case $ac_file in
-    *.$ac_ext) ;;
-    *) ac_cv_objext=`echo $ac_file | sed s/conftest.//` ;;
-  esac
+  ac_cv_objext=not_figured_out_yet
+  for ac_file in conftest.o conftest.obj conftest.*; do
+    if test -f $ac_file; then
+      case $ac_file in
+        *.$ac_ext) ;;
+        *) ac_cv_objext=`echo $ac_file | sed s/conftest.//` ;;
+      esac
+      test $ac_cv_objext = not_figured_out_yet || break
+    fi
   done
 else
   rm -f conftest.$ac_ext