Re: Obscure configure bug

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes:

> I happened to have a file called a.dvi in my building directory
> and then configure stopped with a message that my C compiler didn't
> produce any working code. I have autoconf version 2.50 here, haven't
> tried any other versions.

Silly question: Are you sure there was not a file `a.out' too?

> Can someone else confirm this problem?

I can confirm the obvious fact that autoconf is broken:

   16:31:17 address@hidden:~/lily
   $ touch a.out
   16:31:23 address@hidden:~/lily
   $ chmod -w a.out
   16:31:35 address@hidden:~/lily
   $ clily
   checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
   checking Package... LILYPOND
   checking builddir... /home/janneke/lily
   ...
   checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler
   cannot create executables
   See `config.log' for more details.
   16:31:39 address@hidden:~/lily


Jan.

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