Thought re: autoconf

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1 total messages Started by Jason Merrill Sun, 22 Nov 1992 06:59

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Author: Jason Merrill
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 06:59

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Much of autoconf's work involves finding routines that are missing on the
host machine.  It would seem to me that if the standard ones were included
in libiberty.a (as many are) and autoconf checked for its presence when
deciding which functions were missing, many packages could compile more
easily on more machines.  It just seems to me that since I DO in fact have,
say, vprintf hanging around in libiberty.a, GNU programs should know to use
it.  I'm not saying that this should exclude the workarounds (ever looked
at error.c?), but should be an available option.

Thoughts?

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Jason Merrill					jason@jarthur.claremont.edu
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