%% Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> BTW this problem doesn't just occur on RedHat Linux boxes without a C
>> compiler. I have a RedHat 6.1 box here which has gcc installed, but
>> only as `gcc' and not as `cc'. I'm not totally sure how it got this
>> way since the egcs rpm does have /usr/bin/cc in. I suspect I built
>> gcc-2.95.2 from scratch with egcs-1.1.2 and then uninstalled egcs to
>> make sure that nothing could use it by mistake.
be> This is a known flaw in config.guess. I have every intention of
be> fixing it, soon. It's crazy that a script of such importance
be> fails to use `gcc' if `cc' isn't present.
Just a reminder that this isn't good enough: it wouldn't have helped in
the case I mentioned. The script has to also provide an understandable
error message if _neither_ gcc or cc is present or usable (remember that
sometimes the "cc" program exists, but it doesn't do anything except
print an error, like on a base Solaris system).
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