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Re: [libstdc++] Add --disable-hosted-libstdcxx, clean up conditionals


On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:24:17PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
> | 
> | That's not a bad idea, but it still won't work.  The variable names are
> | generated by autoconf, not by us.  Specifically, the problem cases of
> | 
> |     if test ${foo_libstdc+++set} = set; then
> | 
> | are all done by autoconf.
> 
> ah, now it is not bourne shell limitation, but autoconf limitations :-/

It is both.  We can't name them ++ because of the shell.  We can't transform
them from ++ because of autoconf.


Phil

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