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Re: tweaks for autoconf 2.50
- To: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
- Subject: Re: tweaks for autoconf 2.50
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 26 May 2001 02:01:35 -0300
- Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <20010525211055.M28699@stanford.edu>
On May 26, 2001, "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 12:47:08AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On May 25, 2001, "Zack Weinberg" <zackw@Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>>
>> > I think you misunderstood. Any configure script that uses libtool's
>> > autoconf macros will barf.
>>
>> Indeed. I believe libtool.m4 must be changed so as to avoid link
>> tests in AC_NO_EXECUTABLES configurations. A previous expansion of
>> AC_NO_EXECUTABLES can be tested with
>>
>> AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE([AC_NO_EXECUTABLES],
>> [assume test failed],
>> [do the test])
> Can you do this?
I could give it a try after the end of the month. Before that, no
way. Sorry :-(
> For the moment, it needs to work with 2.13 as well as 2.50.
The test above should work in both cases (even though it would still
perform the executable tests with 2.13, just like it does today).
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