On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 01:19 +0100, Kinkie wrote:

> > And because the motivation is missing, I'm left asking 'why?' Untested
> > code is broken code, so this really can't be the right answer.
> 
> Ok, I'll be more detailed in the future.
> As for this case: the autoconf environment is pretty messy in
> "non-canonicalized" environments such as Solaris. In particular, the C
> tests require linking against libstdc++, which causes two kind of
> issues: finding it (there's at least 6 of the buggers in the test
> zone), and finding the one with the right ABI (gcc/sunstudio cc).
> Since we're not using the C interface anyways, might as well skip the checks.

I'd much rather you delete code that isn't being tested.

-Rob

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