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Autoconf 2.59 breaks libstdc++ checks
- From: Kean Johnston <jkj at sco dot com>
- To: GCC development group <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 15:17:49 -0700
- Subject: Autoconf 2.59 breaks libstdc++ checks
- Organization: The SCO Group
A change was made to autoconf sometime between 2.13 and 2.59
that breaks the efficacy of some of the checks in libstdc++,
or anything else for that matter. It has to do with AC_TRY_LINK.
The comment says that the change was to get around the fact
HP-UX CC under certain optimizing conditions (-O3) and the
AIX linker that does somethiong wrong too. Look at the comment
above AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY in c.m4.
The problem is the new code there does a #undef $1. This is
what is breaking things, and its wrong. It is a perfectly
valid thing for an OS to use #define to implement some function
in terms of another. For example, to implement isinf() in terms
of a call to fpclassify().
I will file a bug against this for autoconf but if they fix it,
would it be acceptable to require autoconf 2.60, and if they
dont fix it, how can we (I) best get a fix for this into
GCC? Add a modified check to each acinclude.m4?
Kean