> On Mar 11, 2015, at 10:55 PM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: >> If one fails then configure moves on an tries with the other. Is >> this a problem? We do it all over the place on configure. > > The problem is that both may "work" (link without errors), but exhibit > subtle errors at run-time due to ABI mismatch.
Anything is possible, if one based ./configure on "what could go wrong with it" then ./configure couldn't really do anything. Barry
