[v3] Fix / clean-up config vs crosses (2/n)
Paolo Carlini
paolo.carlini@oracle.com
Sat Aug 16 19:09:00 GMT 2008
Paolo Carlini wrote:
>> My only comment is that AC_TRY_LINK is a bit more accurate than
>> AC_TRY_COMPILE, so you might want to consider those changes
>> carefully. I can imagine systems where things might be declared in
>> headers, but not defined in the corresponding libraries. For
>> example, with uClibc, you can configure the library not to include
>> various things, but I don't think the headers change. The same thing
>> is true on VxWorks and quite possibly in other RTOS environments.
> Yeah, now I remember why Joseph introduced AC_TRY_COMPILE_OR_LINK, for
> some C99 functions...
... and, those C99 tests changed by Richard Sandiford (not Joseph Myers,
sorry) to use AC_TRY_COMPILE_OR_LINK are run *unconditionally*, not only
when native! Indeed, that seems the way to go. In case of problems, we
(the target maintainers, that is ;) can always add a yes / no parameter
and enable a configure time option...
Paolo.
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