Reference:
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10766>
[CC:ing the bug-autoconf list]
On 02/08/2012 10:04 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> The testsuite on master tries to use lesser compilers, but on Cygwin
> this causes some failures due to the fact that /usr/bin/cc{.exe} is
> also recognized as /usr/bin/CC{.EXE} (due to the filesystem not being
> case sensitive), leading to CXX being set to 'CC'.
>
That is bad. But this sounds more like an autoconf bug, since AC_PROG_CXX
isn't rejecting the C compiler as it IMHO should. Or am I missing
something?
> But then CXX isn't a C++ compiler and some tests go downhill, namely
> silent-many-generic.test and suffix3.tap.
>
> Or something, I didn't look all that much at it. Maybe the failure
> in silent-many-generic.test is just a variant of the SunStudio CC
> case mentioned in the comment?
>
Or more likely some bug in our custom wrapper script kicking in. But
let's look into this once we have solved the other, more serious issue.
Thanks,
Stefano
