Re: INSTALL should tell about particular systems, HP-UX cc

[Bob Proulx]

Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Bruno Haible on 4/26/2008 7:18 AM:
> | Status of 2): Not everyone agrees that this should be done, or at least an
> | escape for old K&R C packages should be offered.
> 
> We already have AC_PROG_CC_C89.  Maybe we should offer AC_PROG_CC_KR which
> allows a K&R C compiler (similar to the current AC_PROG_CC), and default
> AC_PROG_CC to use AC_PROG_CC_C89 instead.  Then packages will default to
> requiring C89 unless explicitly requested otherwise.

I like this idea quite a bit.  But I would prefer it to be named
AC_PROG_CC_KNR instead. :-)

Bob