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Snapshot 26Feb98 - configure still broken

Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk> — 1998-02-26T15:46:37Z

Just tried the 26Feb98 Snapshot under Irix 5.3.

If you request a compiler other than gcc, configure still dies.

After looking at Darren's comment:  
> 
> I complained about this one a few months back.  There is a test condition
> that needs to be double-quoted.  In my generated configure, it's at line
> #3230 in the test whether gcc needs -traditional.
> 
> I seem to recall that it was more a bug in autoconf that in the postgres
> configure script.
> 
> darrenk
> 

I took another look and fixed the problem by hacking configure.
It clearly is a bug in the routine:
AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL

The only work around seems to be to hack configure after running autoconf
(or to fix autoconf...).

Here's a patch to configure which fixes the problem:

*** configure.orig      Thu Feb 26 08:02:06 1998
--- configure   Thu Feb 26 15:42:30 1998
***************
*** 3275,3281 ****
  fi
  rm -f conftest*
  
! if test $ac_cv_prog_gcc = yes; then
      echo $ac_n "checking whether ${CC-cc} needs -traditional""... $ac_c" 1>&6
  echo "configure:3281: checking whether ${CC-cc} needs -traditional" >&5
  if eval "test \"`echo '$''{'ac_cv_prog_gcc_traditional'+set}'`\" = set"; then
--- 3275,3281 ----
  fi
  rm -f conftest*
  
! if test "$ac_cv_prog_gcc" = yes; then
      echo $ac_n "checking whether ${CC-cc} needs -traditional""... $ac_c" 1>&6
  echo "configure:3281: checking whether ${CC-cc} needs -traditional" >&5
  if eval "test \"`echo '$''{'ac_cv_prog_gcc_traditional'+set}'`\" = set"; then




Andrew

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