Re: Make special accommodation for cl in _AC_PROG_CC_G

[Paul Eggert]

Braden McDaniel <address@hidden> writes:

> > Maybe some other strategy would be more general.  Like checking that
> > adding -g both works and doesn't output any extra messages, or
> > something like that.
> 
> I think finding out what "extra" is would be extremely difficult, if not 
> impossible, to do in a general way.

No, it's easy.

1.  Compile without -g.  Save the output.  E.g., without_g=`cc -g foo.c`.
2.  Compile with -g.  Save the output.  E.g., with_g=`cc foo.c`.
3.  Compare the two.  E.g., if test "x$without_g" = "x$with_g"; then ....