Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Drazen Kacar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I wonder. POSIX compilation environment may not do such a thing
>
> I know. However, Wget is targeted to a superset of POSIX or for that
> matter ISO C compliant machines.
The header thing might be applicable to K&R compilers, as well. After all,
a piece of software cannot claim to be a C compiler if it doesn't conform
to some description of the C language, however old.[1]
> If this error breaks compilation on
> those machines without bringing much value, it goes away.
I didn't mean to suggest to refuse to continue; just to emit a nice
friendly message. If there are service packs or whatever that fixes the
problem, it might even be useful.
> > In which case configure script could advise getting a C compiler,
> > just for fun.
>
> That would be hypocritical, given that configure defaults to Gcc. :-)
You think somebody would report that mismatch? :-)
[1] Documenting extensions in compiler documentation is fine.
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