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#10766
CXX gets the value 'CC' on Cygwin, but CC is in fact cc
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Reported by: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 21:06:01 UTC
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Done: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
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On 2012-07-12 10:51, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Hi Peter.
>
> On 07/11/2012 11:21 PM, Peter Rosin wrote:
>> On 2012-07-11 14:44, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>> On 07/09/2012 07:04 PM, Max Horn wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am currently looking into packaging automake 1.12.1 for
>>>> Fink <http://www.finkproject.org/> on Mac OS X 10.7.
>>>> Doing that, several test suite failures popped up, which
>>>> I am now working through to resolve.
>>>>
>>> In the meantime, could you please post the 'test-suite.log' file,
>>> for reference? Thanks.
>>>
>>>> The first one is t/silentcxx-gcc.sh failing.
>>>> Note that t/silentcxx.sh incorrectly (!) succeeds.
>>>>
>>>> There are two problems here:
>>>>
>>>> 1) The C++ compiler from Sun Studio is named "CC". This caused
>>>> t/silentcxx.sh to fail, which was fixed with commit ad5d0be02d
>>>> in the autonconf
>>>>
>>> s/autoconf/automake/ I guess.
>>>
>>> BTW, the problem you are reporting is similar to the one reported
>>> in bug#10766 by Peter Rosin (which I'm thus CC:ing):
>>> <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10766>
>>>
>>>> git repository. The same fix also needs to be applied to
>>>> t/silentcxx-gcc.sh.
>>>>
>>> See if the attached patch solves the issue for you. Ideally, it
>>> should also fix bug#10766; Peter, could you give it a try?
>>
>> Hi Stefano!
>>
>> I updated for the first time in a long time but stumbled on the
>> autoconf 2.69 requirement,
>>
> Since that requirement is only needed for bootstrapping, I could send
> you a (patched) tarball to test (so that you'll only require an
> autoconf >= 2.62). Would that be more acceptable?
Shoot!
>> it's not available as a package for
>> Cygwin yet. I don't feel like rolling my own autoconf. So, no,
>> I will not test this one until 2.69 is readily available. Sorry.
>>
>> So, reading the patch instead, I think the method for querying case
>> insensitivity seems a bit fragile
>>
> Agreed (albeit it does its dirty work for now). Any suggestion on
> how to make it more reliable?
Is test /usr/bin/CC -ef /usr/bin/cc portable enough? Does it work at
all? Just an idea...
Cheers,
Peter
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