Re: Intel compiler and autoconf

[David Mathog]

> 
> >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. 

Why?  icc can work as a preprocessor.  Oh, I see now - CPP isn't
just the program name, it's the program plus a flag.  Autoconf
uses two inconsistent formats for handling program name/command
line options.  In some cases they are cleanly separated:

CC,CFLAGS
CXX,CXXFLAGS
CCLD,LDFLAGS

and in others:

CPP
INSTALL

they aren't.

Regards,

David Mathog
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Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech