* Joseph S. Myers wrote on Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 07:04:30PM CEST:
> I see there's more than just tentative_cc that tries to deal with compiler
> settings in ways that should be the responsibility of autoconf. There's
> the
>
> # Make sure that the compiler is able to generate an executable. If it
> # can't, we are probably in trouble. We don't care whether we can run the
> # executable--we might be using a cross compiler--we only care whether it
> # can be created. At this point the main configure script has set CC.
The first macro invoked out of the set AC_PROG_{CC,CXX,F77,FC,OBJC} will
ensure that compiling and linking a small program of the given language
works.
So this code seems unneeded.
Thanks,
Ralf
