Hello Eric, Paolo, * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 07:59:08PM CEST: > > This is a subtle change in semantics; beforehand, the if-failed code > ($3) was executed while the compiler output still existed, and could > theoretically rerun conftest$ac_exeext with an argument; now the files > are removed before the if- failed code is run. Was this intentional? > IMHO, it is a harmless change
While I haven't looked at this in detail, I do know there are places in Autoconf where removing the output files before evaluating the actions breaks user scripts. So this sounds quite unsafe to me. Cheers, Ralf
