Re: hurd ChangeLog Makeconf

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:36:09PM +0100, olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:22:55PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > This means that GCC 4.1.3 or newer needs to be used for compiling.
> > But this is fine in my opinion, so I didn't add a configure-time check
> > to see whether such a modern compiler is indeed being used.
> 
> Certainly it's fine to require such a version. Still, it would be nice
> to have a check that errors out with a useful message if someone tries
> with an older one.

They'll show something like ``cc1: error: unrecognized command line
option "-fgnu89-inline"'', which is good enough for me, and good enough
to google for.

If someone contributes a patch to give a ``more understandable'' error
message, I might install it, though.


Regards,
 Thomas

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