Martin Wilck writes:

> Another point though (practical experience): The SGI, Sun, AIX machines
> at our site often have poorly administered GNU software installed that
> is outdated or sometimes even doesn't work at all, whereas the
> vendor software is updated on a regular basis. This may result in autoconf
> finding a GNU compiler, trying to use it, and fail.

This is a general problem with Autoconf compiler detection. It will take
the first one it finds and tests it. It will never consider looking for
other, perhaps working, ones.


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