Re: AC_CYGWIN etc. (Was: AC_OBJEXT again)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec 14, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I plan to have the two tests: the a.exe one (in a conftestdir as was
> to be suggested by Alexandre), and the -o conftest$ac_exeext one.

To be sincere, I hadn't thought of this option.  But, now that you
mentioned, I see it may introduce other (unlikely, I agree) problems
in itself.  Think of CC, CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS or LIBS containing
some options that reference relative filenames.  If you enter
conftestdir, these options may break the compilation/linking.  Ugh!

> As for the other cross compilers, let them receive our signal: we are
> setting a standard they have to follow :)

This doesn't fit in very well with autoconf's standards :-)

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