Hello Matthew, I haven't followed this thread, so bear with me, please.
* Matthew Woehlke wrote on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 06:09:51PM CEST: > For now I'm just going to use 'CC="cc -qlanglvl=stdc99"'. I don't know > how hard you want to try to make this work out of the box, but the > previous change should probably be reverted. Typically, -qlanglvl=extc99 is a better choice for GNU software. > FYI: adding the autoconf check to turn on c99 mode is broken; autoconf > picks up -qlanglvl=ansi from the ANSI c89 check, and doesn't know how to > try alternatives (this affects other GNU packages as well, most notably > coreutils). Can you reformulate this paragraph so that it can serve as a bug report against Autoconf and/or other affected GNU packages? IOW: what exactly is broken, using AC_PROG_CC_C99 after AC_PROG_CC_C89? Thanks, Ralf
