Re: ac-archive: ax_cflags_<option> macros...

[Ville Laurikari]

> That makes it not the best choice to limit oneself to a list of compiler
> names and choose the options by that - it is the very same scheme why
> autoconf people have always argued against using "case $host" sequences
> and have generic feature tests all around. In real life, well, we use
> a mixed style - but a real feature test should always be preferred, and
> I was hoping that the presented scheme is good enough in this respect.

Agreed.  Not only is your scheme more robust (it works on a larger set
of compilers with no changes), but the code is also a lot shorter and
more concise.  Bravo :-)

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