Re: Intel compiler and autoconf

[Tim Van Holder]

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 17:09, David Mathog wrote:
> I had difficulty using the intel linux compiler (icc) with the
> autoconf generated configure in the current POVRAY package. 
> Thread 156845 on 
> 
> https://premier.intel.com/IssueDetail.aspx?IssueID=156845
> 
> (account required) discusses this.  The Intel engineers feel
> that this is a problem with autoconf and not their compiler.
> They suggested I pass the issue on to you folks.

>From what I read in the thread you attached, the Intel engineers
feel this is the result of bad configure invocation, and I'm inclined
to agree with them.  You set CPP in the environment, overriding any
value configure may have otherwise tried to deduce, and the value you
supplied was incorrect.  Normally, you should only override such
variables if configure is unable to find them by itself; in this
case, configure was perfectly capable of figuring out the
C preprocessor is 'icc -E', given that icc is the C compiler.

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Tim Van Holder <address@hidden>
Anubex