Re: HPUX 11.00 with aCC vs. autoconf 2.57 [#8108]

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 02:07:48PM -0400, Keith Bostic wrote:
> >> The problem is autoconf is inserting the lines:
> >> 
> >>    #ifdef __cplusplus
> >>    #include <stdlib.h>
> >>    #endif
> >> 
> >> in its test program for the AC_REPLACE_FUNCS macro, and,
> >> with aCC on that results in the following error:
> >
> > that's a workaround for a defect in glibc (has been in
> > autoconf for a couple of years).  Ostensibly to provide
> > a prototype for exit(), it actually is used to allow
> > glibc to tack a "throws" onto the exit() prototype.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Would it be reasonable to if/else it for gcc only?

Perhaps.  But I'm not one of the "maintainers", who have their own criteria.

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