Re: Bug in largefile.m4

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 01:54:49 +0100 (MET)
> From: Joerg Schilling <address@hidden>

> If you do this, the result may not be what I intend:
> 
> It will assume that it should use gcc when calling ./configure.
> 
> What I assume in this case is that CC=cc so my patch is correct:

To have my patch work in your case, you can prepend

: ${CC=cc}

to your configure.in file.

> If the creator of the autoconf environment added a test for the C-COMPIER
> we could assume that he likes to use the resultant CC in his scripts.
> If he does not add this test he assumes (like me) that CC=cc unless
> otherwise specified.

But that introduces a dependency: configure.in must invoke AC_PROG_CC
before invoking AC_SYS_LARGEFILE.  It is not good to have dependencies
like that.

Admittedly neither solution is ideal.