Re: Incompatible compiler option fexec-charset

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 7 Dec 2011, at 14:40, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
>>> The check in the configure script (which breaks the build with clang now - 
>>> apparently it was not tested before being committed)
>> The script provides instruction on how to ignore the check for compilers 
>> which don't support the 'standard' gcc behaviors.  That worked on my system 
>> when I tested it.  I put that option in for old versions of gcc and because 
>> the latest info I managed to find for clang was that it didn't support 
>> characterset specifier flags and didn't check what characterset it was 
>> writing using for string literals.
> Just as information: the check fails on gcc 4.2.1 and I disabled it though 
> the option.
> However, the man pages lists it as valid option.

Hmm ... works for me with gcc-4.1.2 on CentOS, and 4.5.2 on windows, and a 4.7 
snapshot on Debian.
Most likely there's some problem in the test (though I guess there could be a 
problem with gcc-4.2.1) ... perhaps locale related in some way (though the test 
attempts to work in a common locale to avoid that)?