Re: AC_PROG_CC wrongly setting $GCC=yes while clang is used

[Bastien Chevreux]

On 08 Sep 2014, at 23:07 , Marko Lindqvist <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm ginving theoretical autoconf-way answer. I admit that in some
> individual cases the Right Thing(tm) might be too much work in
> practice, and the "check version number" hack is justifiable.

Indeed it may be. Delivering the source code with a 352 MiB (compressed, some 
2.4 GiB uncompressed) test data set that triggers the error and which computes 
17 hrs (on faster faster machines with Xeons and north of 64 GiB RAM (your 
mileage may vary)) until the result can be checked against the known good 
outcome in autoconf falls into this category I suppose. I’m not sure the Debian 
guys would approve having this in their weekly builds :-)

B.