As Joseph pointed out in his mail, its time has come. Paolo
2011-03-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonz...@gnu.org> * configure.ac: Remove all mentions of tentative_cc. * configure: Regenerate. Index: configure.ac =================================================================== --- configure.ac (revision 171414) +++ configure.ac (working copy) @@ -1034,7 +1034,6 @@ case "${noconfigdirs}" in esac # Work in distributions that contain no compiler tools, like Autoconf. -tentative_cc="" host_makefile_frag=/dev/null if test -d ${srcdir}/config ; then case "${host}" in @@ -1058,18 +1057,15 @@ case "${host}" in host_makefile_frag="config/mh-solaris" ;; hppa*-hp-hpux10*) - tentative_cc="cc -Wp,-H256000" host_makefile_frag="config/mh-pa-hpux10" ;; hppa*-hp-hpux*) - tentative_cc="cc -Wp,-H256000" host_makefile_frag="config/mh-pa" ;; hppa*-*) host_makefile_frag="config/mh-pa" ;; *-hp-hpux*) - tentative_cc="cc -Wp,-H256000" ;; *-*-darwin*) host_makefile_frag="config/mh-darwin" @@ -1081,8 +1077,6 @@ case "${host}" in host_makefile_frag="config/mh-ppc-aix" ;; *-*-lynxos*) - # /bin/cc is less than useful for our purposes. Always use GCC - tentative_cc="/bin/gcc" ;; # This is placed last to prevent interfering with the cases above. i[[3456789]]86-*-*) @@ -1092,25 +1086,6 @@ case "${host}" in esac fi -# If we aren't going to be using gcc, see if we can extract a definition -# of CC from the fragment. -# Actually, use the 'pre-extracted' version above. -if test -z "${CC}" && test "${build}" = "${host}" ; then - IFS="${IFS= }"; save_ifs="$IFS"; IFS="${IFS}:" - found= - for dir in $PATH; do - test -z "$dir" && dir=. - if test -f $dir/gcc; then - found=yes - break - fi - done - IFS="$save_ifs" - if test -z "${found}" && test -n "${tentative_cc}" ; then - CC=$tentative_cc - fi -fi - if test "${build}" != "${host}" ; then AR_FOR_BUILD=${AR_FOR_BUILD-ar} AS_FOR_BUILD=${AS_FOR_BUILD-as}