Re: Wget2 cross-compile on iOS arm64

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 12:38 AM Ryan Schmidt <wget@ryandesign.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 22, 2021, at 17:56, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> > It looks like  this is an Autotools problem. Autotools should test if
> > ccp works as expected, and avoid cpp if it does not. Autotools should
> > not break the build.
> >
> > Perl works around Apple's cpp:
> > https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/hints/darwin.sh#L131.
>
> You're referring to the part of their code that adds -no-cpp-precomp if the 
> compiler accepts it? The last version of Apple gcc that did anything in 
> response to -no-cpp-precomp was Apple gcc 3.1. Apple gcc 3.3 and later do 
> nothing in response to -no-cpp-precomp. That flag is ancient history.
>
Actually I was talking about the comment that says, " Avoid Apple's
cpp precompiler".

Jeff