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Re: why does autoconf check for all these extra compilers?
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Ralf Corsepius |
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Re: why does autoconf check for all these extra compilers? |
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Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:02:26 +0200 |
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 11:14 +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello,
> > the configure script checks for a whole bunch of extra compilers.
> > What's up with that?
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> That is a limitation of libtool: it searches for a compiler for each
> language it supports, even though your project doesn't use eg.
> Fortran. This is fixed in libtool 2.0. Takes some time, but should
> be otherwise harmless.
It isn't harmless. The libtool-1.x implementation bogusly and silently
picks up the native toolchain's language specific frontend if a
cross-compiler's language's frontend is not available.
Ralf