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

[Bastien Chevreux]

On 08 Sep 2014, at 23:38 , Marko Lindqvist <address@hidden> wrote:
> Maybe gcc regression test set has a bit lighter test added against
> the bug in question, added when it was fixed.

If only one knew exactly which one of the bugs or features they fixed it was. 
There are dozens/hundreds, digging through all possible error reports and 
trying to correlate a compiler regression test with the test set I have could 
take days, weeks or maybe months, who knows.

And that’s the point: as a developer of a program who uses a compiler just as a 
mean to get things done, I’m totally not interested in this … and I shouldn’t. 
It’s enough for me to know that a given compiler is buggy between version X and 
Y when a given flag is used to simply not use that flag there. Maybe also give 
the user who used ./configure a warning that the program will run a bit slower 
with the given compiler.

But that’s all there should be to it.

B.