Autoconf on MSYS+MinGW, was: AC_PROG_CC_C_O doesn't work with VC++

[Dan Manthey]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Stepan Kasal wrote:

> 3) There is an MSYS build of bash.  Though MinGW/MSYS is not ready
> to run Autoconf, you can use it to unpack a tarball and run ./configure
> there.
> Is it possible that ./configure will then run in the 8.3 environment?
> I don't know and that is why I am not ready to drop the 8.3 support from
> generated ./configure.
>

Actually, I've been running AC on MSYS for over a year now.  I think I had
to build AC locally and install it, but it works fine.

My Windows environment doesn't have 8.3 issues, so I can't guess whether
there's any need to support 8.3 filenames under MSYS.

-Dan