Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:25:34AM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: >> Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: >> >> >>> I have a feeling it would be more robust to simulate the link tests >> >>> inside the autoconf/libtool macros themselves as opposed to explicitly >> >>> avoiding them in each and every configure.{ac,in}. Supply an option >> >>> --simulate-link-tests=file_with_results with the default being no and be >> >>> happy. > >> The advantage to the current setup is that you get a >> loud failure, and have to go actually work out the right answer. > > That's the --cache-file option, except for clobbering the file. I'll see > if I can arrange for the toplevel Makefile to copy a pre-made config.cache > into target library build directories just before running configure. That > ought to deal with all AC_FUNC(S) macros. That leaves just symbol versioning > and AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN, which is manageble.
I've lost track of whether we're still talking about what to do for 4.3, or whether we're talking about future directions. So: are we considering this for 4.3, or for 4.4+? Richard