On 2012-05-09 21:08, Bill Hart wrote: > Wouldn't autotools eventually have a configure test to look for this > bug and apply a workaround or patch automatically? > > Maybe I misunderstand what autotools is supposed to do. Autotools doesn't do this. It would obviously be very hard to work around all the bugs in GCC (and other software!), of which only a small number would harm any particular application.
I think autotools is more about checking for missing features than checking for bugs. If some particular bug is very common, it might work around that. For example, it does work around various shell bugs in autoconf scripts. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en.
