Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Martin Costabel wrote:
>> This is how far I got; I don't know what is really wrong with autoconf 
>> this time.
>>
> 
> It appears to be checking if the compiler is GNU before it knows what
> ac_objext is supposed to be (it's "o"). Causing the tests to decide that
> it is not the GNU C/C++ compiler, and so on.
> 
> It's just not worth it, I will revert autoconf to 2.63.

I found a discussion of this at
<http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-autoc...@gnu.org/msg02086.html>
The conclusion of the autoconf developer is

> I
> stand by my ground that we really did fix an eight-year-old bug, but I am
> also aware that we haven't heard the last from packages that happened to
> be successfully exploiting the bug and which will need help in fixing
> their code to be more robust.

The list of "packages that happened..." apparently includes kde.

-- 
Martin

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