Re: Preferring a specific compiler?

2005-06-01 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:55:31PM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: ...but it's not finding tcc. Perhaps it's looking for a program called tcc -b, and not a program called tcc with a -b argument? No, it should look for tcc. Does the following work: AC_CHECK_PROGS(FOO1, [tcc -b gcc

Re: autoconf macro for gcc symbol visibility

2005-06-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* J.T. Conklin wrote on Tue, May 31, 2005 at 08:37:44PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * J.T. Conklin wrote on Sun, May 29, 2005 at 07:34:46PM CEST: Does anyone have a macro for testing gcc's symbol visibility options (-fvisibility=hidden, etc.)? The ACE/TAO autoconf

please correct my ugly hack

2005-06-01 Thread Claudio Fontana
Hello, I am trying to put checks for available programs in a for loop in a configure.ac script. My first attempt was: for NAME in cp du mv rm sh su mkdir rmdir bunzip2 bzip2 compress gunzip gzip tar unzip zip do AC_PATH_PROG($NAME, $NAME, [no]) done This does not work, so I wrote

Re: please correct my ugly hack

2005-06-01 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Claudio, On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:39:58AM -0700, Claudio Fontana wrote: for NAME in cp du mv rm sh su mkdir rmdir bunzip2 bzip2 compress gunzip gzip tar unzip zip do AC_PATH_PROG($NAME, $NAME, [no]) done The problem with is that the AC_*PROG macros expect a literal as a

Re: please correct my ugly hack

2005-06-01 Thread Paul Eggert
Stepan Kasal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that the patch which would put AS_VAR_* to programs.m4 would present a useful general improvement. Paul, would you accept such a patch? That sounds good to me, yess. I think the best solution is to drop caching from programs.m4. You can also

Re: please correct my ugly hack

2005-06-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 18:33 +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: I think the best solution is to drop caching from programs.m4. Only over my dead body ;-) Caching was invented mainly for expensive tests which involve calling a compiler, which can be really slow. No, caching had been invented for faster

Re: please correct my ugly hack

2005-06-01 Thread Dan Manthey
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 18:33 +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote: I think the best solution is to drop caching from programs.m4. Only over my dead body ;-) Caching was invented mainly for expensive tests which involve calling a compiler, which can be