Re: Patch: remove configure run test

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>]

On May 31, 2001, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:

Alexandre> Hmm...  autoconf 2.50's AC_CHECK_SIZEOF is a compile-time
Alexandre> test already.  Perhaps you might want to wait start
Alexandre> recommending (or requiring) autoconf 2.50 for libjava?

> When is the rest of gcc doing this?

Well...  Zack has been doing some work to make GCC configury
compatible with autoconf 2.50.  As soon as that's done, we might just
move on to it.  But then, the idea of forcing everybody that gets to
install configure patches to have autoconf 2.50 doesn't appeal to me.

> It would be nice if we could synchronize the auto* tools across the
> entire tree.

Indeed.

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