On 1 November 2017 at 19:46, Daniel Henrique Barboza <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/01/2017 05:41 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> I think that currently we try to make "--help" work >> even if you don't have a working C compiler. Does this >> break that? > > Just checked, configure --help isn't broken with this change:
Did you test with gcc uninstalled again? It's hard to see how it could work -- if the compile test fails we'll call error_exit, which (as the name suggests) exits. Your patch moves the compiler check from after we handle --help to before it... thanks -- PMM
