Re: how to support compilers that cannot create executables?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Steffen,

* Steffen Dettmer wrote on Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 05:19:46PM CEST:
> when compiling libraries, it technically is not required to have a
> compiler to create executables. We might have a lib with unit tests
> where the unit tests work on linux and windows only, but not on a
> small embedded platform. On this platform it might be complicated,
> special and non-standard to create actual executables (like linking
> firmware images or so).
> However, configure usually checks if the compiler can create
> executables. Can (should) this be prevented?

Can you write a compiler wrapper that *does* create the executable
in a fairly standard way?

Cheers,
Ralf