Re: [PATCH 1/6] configure: search generic compilers for use in the tests

2012-01-23 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Peter. On 01/23/2012 08:55 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: > Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-01-20 19:14: >> I mean, the automake testsuite makes (or at least should make) only >> two general assumptions about the compilers it uses: >> >> - they can build executables >> - if $(build_alias) == $(host_al

Re: [PATCH 1/6] configure: search generic compilers for use in the tests

2012-01-22 Thread Peter Rosin
Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-01-20 19:14: > On 01/20/2012 06:14 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > + > +# The list of C++ compilers here has been copied, pasted and edited > +# from `lib/autoconf/c.m4:AC_PROG_CXX' in the Autoconf distribution. > +# Keep it in sync, or better again, find out a

Re: [PATCH 1/6] configure: search generic compilers for use in the tests

2012-01-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 01/20/2012 06:14 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: + +# The list of C++ compilers here has been copied, pasted and edited +# from `lib/autoconf/c.m4:AC_PROG_CXX' in the Autoconf distribution. +# Keep it in sync, or better again, find out a way to avoid this code +# duplication. >>>

Re: [PATCH 1/6] configure: search generic compilers for use in the tests

2012-01-20 Thread Peter Rosin
Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-01-20 15:02: > Hi Peter. > > On 01/20/2012 12:56 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-01-19 14:55: >> >> [MEGA-SNIP] >> >>> +# Prefer generic compilers to GNU ones when possible. This will ensure >>> +# more testsuite coverage "in the wild". >>> +# F

Re: [PATCH 1/6] configure: search generic compilers for use in the tests

2012-01-20 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hi Peter. On 01/20/2012 12:56 PM, Peter Rosin wrote: > Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-01-19 14:55: > > [MEGA-SNIP] > >> +# Prefer generic compilers to GNU ones when possible. This will ensure >> +# more testsuite coverage "in the wild". >> +# FIXME: maybe we should a more comprehensive list too loo

Re: [PATCH 1/6] configure: search generic compilers for use in the tests

2012-01-20 Thread Peter Rosin
Stefano Lattarini skrev 2012-01-19 14:55: > * configure.ac: Look for "generic" C, C++ and Fortran compilers, > with the aim of starting to use them in the testsuite (this will > be done in future changes). This is more tricky than it seems, > since we don't want to abort the whole configure script

[PATCH 1/6] configure: search generic compilers for use in the tests

2012-01-19 Thread Stefano Lattarini
* configure.ac: Look for "generic" C, C++ and Fortran compilers, with the aim of starting to use them in the testsuite (this will be done in future changes). This is more tricky than it seems, since we don't want to abort the whole configure script even if no one of those compilers is available (a