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Re: [HACKERS] URGENT PROBLEM with the 6.3->6.3.1 patch

Andrew Martin <martin@biochemistry.ucl.ac.uk> — 1998-03-26T18:30:36Z

> > Marc, can you comment on this.
> 
> 	It kind of bothers me that something that is standard in autoconf
> breaks on some systems, while, as far as I can tell, its always been this
> way ;(
> 
> 	Andrew, have you asked the developers of autoconf about this?
> 
> 
> > > The patch to configure contains the following:
> > > 

It's not just "on some systems" the test seems to miss the screen for
"is this gcc" and it tries a gcc-specific flag (--traditional) on all
C compilers - at least that's how I understand the problem.

under Irix, if I use gcc, then it runs fine; if I use the Irix C
compiler, the script crashes.

No, I haven't contacted the autoconf guys yet... I have never used
autoconf and really have not looked into how it works, but I guess
this bug should be reported to them


Andrew

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