On 9/26/2011 6:00 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> It is normal that --enable-relocatable has a runtime cost. Certainly when
> you apply --enable-relocatable to small, fast programs like 'id' or 'pwd'
> the runtime cost will be more perceivable than with programs which run
> for longer than 1 second on av
Hi Bruno,
On 29 Sep 2011, at 16:14, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> I'm still curious why gnulib doesn't try to put the compiler into
>> c99 mode when the client project has chosen some gnulib c99 compliance
>> modules? After all, it might be that with the compiler in c99 mode
>> fewer of the gnulib modul
Hi Bruno,
On 29 Sep 2011, at 16:14, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>>> we're fine as-is, since it's normal practice
>>> to put the AC_PROG_CC_STDC before gl_EARLY.
>>
>> I discovered the multiple --std=gnu99 option problem because no
>> one told me that it's normal to to put AC_PROG
On 29 Sep 2011, at 16:14, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > Autoconf makes it easy to enforce and document these kinds of order
> > dependencies though:
> >
> > AC_DEFUN([gl_EARLY], [
> > ...
> > AC_BEFORE([$0], [AC_PROG_CC_C99])
> > ...
> > ])
>
> Rather, the order should be that
Hi,
Andreas Metzler wrote on 2011-09-05:
> > > test-float fails on PowerPC (not PowerPC64), too. This causes
> [...]
> > Does the test failure go away if you change in lib/float.in.h the
> > condition
>
> > (defined _ARCH_PPC || defined _POWER) && defined _AIX
>
> > to
>
> > (defined _A
On 09/29/11 02:14, Bruno Haible wrote:
> But switching the compiler to a different standards-compliance
> mode is a global effect. I was not sure whether it would have some negative
> side effects on some platforms.
>
> On the other hand, we do it in module 'stdarg' for 5 years now, and it has
> n
[Dropping bug-autoconf from CC]
Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > we're fine as-is, since it's normal practice
> > to put the AC_PROG_CC_STDC before gl_EARLY.
>
> I discovered the multiple --std=gnu99 option problem because no
> one told me that it's normal to to put AC_PROG_CC_STDC before
> gl_EARLY, I
