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1. configure doesn't handle --with-compiler correctly

   Pedro J. Lobo <pjlobo@euitt.upm.es> — 1998-02-16T12:02:06Z

   Hi, all.
   
   I have compiled the Feb. 15 snapshot on a DEC alpha and, besides other
   problems that I've reported in the psql-ports list, there is a bug in
   configure that has been there for quite a while.
   
   I use this command to do the 'configure' thing:
   
   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql.beta --enable-locale
   --with-pgport=5440 --enable-cassert --with-compiler=cc
   
   I use --with-compiler=cc because I have both DEC C ang GNU gcc installed,
   and I've found DEC C to generate better code (faster) than gcc.
   
   The problem is that when the configure script tries to figure out if we
   are using gcc, to check if it needs the -traditional flag, it dies (the
   script).
   
   This is the patch I use as a workaround:
   
   ----------------------------------------------------
   *** configure.orig      do 15 feb 09:00:37 1998
   --- configure   lu 16 feb 11:37:21 1998
   ***************
   *** 3224,3230 ****
     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:3230: checking whether ${CC-cc} needs -traditional" >&5
     if eval "test \"`echo '$''{'ac_cv_prog_gcc_traditional'+set}'`\" = set";
   then
   --- 3224,3230 ----
     fi
     rm -f conftest*
   
   ! if test x$ac_cv_prog_gcc = xyes; then
         echo $ac_n "checking whether ${CC-cc} needs -traditional""... $ac_c" 1>&6
     echo "configure:3230: checking whether ${CC-cc} needs -traditional" >&5
     if eval "test \"`echo '$''{'ac_cv_prog_gcc_traditional'+set}'`\" = set";
   then
   -----------------------------------------------------------
   
   The problem is that $ac_cv_prog_gcc is empty, instead of 'no' or
   whatsoever. The patch is not a solution, because configure is generated
   from configure.in, and I don't know how to patch it to get a working
   'configure'.
   
   Is there any autoconf guru that has a solution? Marc?
   
   	Pedro.
   
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2. Re: [HACKERS] configure doesn't handle --with-compiler correctly

   Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 1998-02-17T01:31:19Z

   On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Pedro J. Lobo wrote:
   
   > The problem is that $ac_cv_prog_gcc is empty, instead of 'no' or
   > whatsoever. The patch is not a solution, because configure is generated
   > from configure.in, and I don't know how to patch it to get a working
   > 'configure'.
   > 
   > Is there any autoconf guru that has a solution? Marc?
   
   	The only solution that I have is to re-install autoconf after
   modifying the appropriate line in acspecific.m4 ... now every time I do an
   autoconf at this end, it will have the 'x's in front of the appropraite
   variables...
   
   Marc G. Fournier                                
   Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
   primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org