Re: [HACKERS] URGENT PROBLEM with the 6.3->6.3.1 patch

On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Marc, can you comment on this.

    It kind of bothers me that something that is standard in autoconf
breaks on some systems, while, as far as I can tell, its always been this
way ;(

    Andrew, have you asked the developers of autoconf about this?


> > The patch to configure contains the following:
> >
> > *** 3316,3322 ****
> >   fi
> >   rm -f conftest*
> >
> > ! if test x$ac_cv_prog_gcc = xyes; then
> >       echo $ac_n "checking whether ${CC-cc} needs -traditional""... $ac_c" 1>&6
> >   echo "configure:3322: checking whether ${CC-cc} needs -traditional" >&5
> >   if eval "test \"`echo '$''{'ac_cv_prog_gcc_traditional'+set}'`\" = set"; then
> > --- 3316,3322 ----
> >   fi
> >   rm -f conftest*
> >
> > ! if test $ac_cv_prog_gcc = yes; then
> >       echo $ac_n "checking whether ${CC-cc} needs -traditional""... $ac_c" 1>&6
> >   echo "configure:3322: checking whether ${CC-cc} needs -traditional" >&5
> >   if eval "test \"`echo '$''{'ac_cv_prog_gcc_traditional'+set}'`\" = set"; then
> >
> >
> > I am worried that this has undone the patch which was required to get
> > configure to run properly with anything other than GCC. (I haven't
> > actually tried 6.3.1, but this change affects that area of the code and
> > doesn't look healthy...)
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Dr. Andrew C.R. Martin                             University College London
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> >
>
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Marc G. Fournier
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