Re: 1 compiler (called from 2 symbolic links) -> 2 different libtool scripts

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Ethan, and sorry for the delay,

* Ethan Mallove wrote on Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:52:12PM CEST:
> 
> Any thoughts on using the pre-defined compiler macros listed
> at http://predef.sourceforge.net/precomp.html? Then the
> compiler writers can change their symlinks and verbose/help
> output all they want without affecting libtool macros. The
> workaround would be setting CFLAGS, e.g., to spoof libtool
> into detecting Sun Studio though *actually* using GNU:
> 
>   $ ./configure CFLAGS="-U__GNUC__ -D__SUNPRO_C ..."

Hmm yes, that would be a possibility; at least for C and C++.
For Fortran compilers we'd still be out of luck mostly.

And anyway it would be quite a big step.  Not something I'd
do shortly before a point release.

Cheers,
Ralf