GCC 3.0.3 build-procedure incompatibilities with POSIX 1003.1-2001

[Zack Weinberg]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:59:04PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > options and commands.  Many older systems do not support the options
> > you would use unconditionally.  For backward compatibility, most newer
> 
> Such cases are what we have autoconf for - we should test for support of
> the different options.

Only at the expense of additional complexity.  If there's an
incantation that works everywhere, let us (a) use it and (b)
encourage shell-utilities maintainers not to break it.

zw