Re: AC_PROG_CC_C89 is not adding -std=c89 to CFLAGS

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2017, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> > I was expecting that adding AC_PROG_CC_C89 to configure.ac, would force C89
>
> Eeeuuw. Who would want to do that?

See the context in my first email, apparently some defines were not very 
well thought. Passing -std=gnu89 to CFLAGS helped me move on.

> To some extent AC_PROG_CC_C89 is obsolete, and I don't recommend using it, 
> just as I don't recommend C89.

I fully agree, for code I own. :-)


Dimitris