Apologies for the delay; holiday travel kept me occupied! On Sat, 2019 Dec 14 08:51-05:00, Bruno Haible wrote: > > > This sounds good. It would imply broadening the scope of the script > > beyond just working around the -c -o limitation, but then it was > > always a curiosity that that has been the *only* issue this script > > was intended to work around (until now). > > In fact, the other issue this script works around are the invocation > conventions of the MSVC compiler (slash options instead of dash > options).
I had previously glanced over lib/compile in the Automake Git repository to refresh my memory. Someone needs to update the description at the top of the file :] > > Also: I see that AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS() actually comes from > > Autoconf. Would that be a good place to put e.g. the > > -D_UNIX95_THREADS flag needed to get a proper pthreads API? I see > > that as similar in spirit to -D__EXTENSIONS__. > > Yes, I agree. Ah, good. I'll forward this to them once I've caught up with my correspondence. > > I can add some information, but am concerned about discoverability. > > I myself was not aware of this wiki until you mentioned it to me > > This wiki is very recent (just a month old). The more useful content > we add, the more known it will become. Gnulib did not become widely > known within a month either :-) Understood; I'll update that when I have the opportunity. --Daniel -- Daniel Richard G. || [email protected] My ASCII-art .sig got a bad case of Times New Roman.
