Fwd: Getting AC_PROG_CC_C99

2011-09-28 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
From a private discussion about preventing CFLAGS getting -std=gnu99 twice, that leads to a bug report for gnulib and maybe autoconf too... Begin forwarded message: From: Gary V. Vaughan g...@gnu.org Subject: Re: Getting AC_PROG_CC_C99 Date: 28 September 2011 12:38:33 GMT+07:00 To: Reuben

Re: Fwd: Getting AC_PROG_CC_C99

2011-09-28 Thread Paul Eggert
On 09/28/11 01:52, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: Might as well try to fix it right in gnulib though, and maybe in autoconf too if the latest release hasn't made it multi-call safe yet. The simplest fix would be something like the patch at the end of this message. This matches common practice anyway;

Re: Fwd: Getting AC_PROG_CC_C99

2011-09-28 Thread Paul Eggert
On 09/28/11 09:45, Bruno Haible wrote: If the package's configure.ac already invokes AC_PROG_CC_STDC, early on (i.e. usually right after AC_PROG_CC), then gnulib's AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC_STDC]) will be a no-op. Ah, sorry, then we're fine as-is, since it's normal practice to put the