>>> 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...
$ CC=asdf ./configure --help ERROR: "asdf" either does not exist or does not work Oops.
