Fw: gcc 3.2's cpp breaks configure scripts

Christoph Hellwig hch@infradead.org
Thu Aug 1 07:32:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:59:23PM +1000, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> as per Akims request... I forward this to the list... (for those like me who
> didnt realise.)
> >
> > >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> writes:
> >
> > Jeff> cpp is spitting out a warning about changing the search order of
> > Jeff> include directories, and this is breaking a _ton_ of configure
> > Jeff> scripts.
> >
> > This is certainly due to people using too old versions of Autoconf.
> > As far as I know, 2.50 and following have no such problems: they have
> > a better understanding of what is a warning, and what is a failiure.
> >
> > Such issues should be bug reported to users of Autoconf 2.13.

The answer is silly as 2.50 isn't backwards-compatible.  But the whole
autoconf/automake is a little OT here..



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