On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:49:11PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > > Certainly. Any compile-and-link tests won't work. > > > >I'm sorry, I missed the "and link" part of your question. Configury > >tests of this kind really aren't going to work. For things like tests > >for PIC, it's pointless: gcj supports the same options as gcc. > > Then, does anybody know the very reason why all those tests are run > repeatedly for each language?
I will guess. It is because the C/C++/Java/Fortran/.. compilers may not come from the same gcc version or based on gcc at all. H.J.
