Hello,
patch forgotten, sorry. Attached to this mail.
Stepan
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:06:53PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:26:41PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > > +# ... We should not override ac_cv_exeext if it was
> > > > +# cached, so that the user can short-circuit this test for compilers
> > > > +# unknown to Autoconf.
>
> ... but it would be better if this override were done by assigning
> EXEEXT on the configure line, not by assigning ac_cv_exeext.
>
> Of course I'm against any change to this fragile code before the
> release, but I think that the current hack should not be documented.
>
> Thus I propose to remove a tiny fraction of Ralf's work, see the
> attached patch.
>
> (I apologize that I haven't noticed it earlier.)
>
> Stepan
2006-05-31 Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* doc/autoconf.texi (System Services): Do not document
overriding EXEEXT via ac_cv_exeext=ext.
Index: doc/autoconf.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/doc/autoconf.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.1029
diff -u -r1.1029 autoconf.texi
--- doc/autoconf.texi 27 May 2006 22:22:01 -0000 1.1029
+++ doc/autoconf.texi 31 May 2006 11:32:05 -0000
@@ -5920,9 +5920,7 @@
All the tests for compilers (@code{AC_PROG_CC}, @code{AC_PROG_CXX},
@code{AC_PROG_F77}) define the output variable @code{EXEEXT} based on
the output of the compiler, typically to the empty string if
-Posix and @samp{.exe} if a @acronym{DOS} variant. It can be overridden
-by passing the argument @[EMAIL PROTECTED] to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+Posix and @samp{.exe} if a @acronym{DOS} variant.
@ovindex OBJEXT
They also define the output variable @code{OBJEXT} based on the
