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Make the 'subdir-objects' setup the default, and only available one

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler <at> elliptictech.com>, 13378 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
	"automake-patches <at> gnu.org" <automake-patches <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#13378: [PATCH] compile: use 'compile' script when "-c -o"
	is used with losing compilers
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:56:15 -0700

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On 01/11/2013 09:30 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] compile: avoid AC_PROG_CC messy rewrite
> 
> Instead, only touch up AC_PROG_CC to distribute the 'compile' script and
> to rewrite $CC if a losing compiler is detected.  We can do so because
> Autoconf 2.70 (which we now requires) has been so kind to implement the

s/requires/require/

> features we need (through a private hook made explicitly available to us),
> in commit v2.69-63-gce48964 of 2013-01-11, "AC_PROG_CC: also check whether
> $CC supports "-c -o" together":
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2013-01/msg00007.html>

Looks reasonable.  I still need to spend another weekend on progressing
towards a release of 2.70.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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