Re: Problem with cl and autoconf

[James Youngman]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:42:44PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:

>       * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_PREPROC_IFELSE, _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE,
>       _AC_LINK_IFELSE): Redirect stdin to /dev/null, in an attempt to
>       avoid thinking that Allegro Common Lisp's "cl" command is a C++
>       compiler.

IIRC, "cl" is the Microsoft C compiler, and so to avoid conflict with
Allegro Common Lisp's "cl" command, we could just invoke it as
"CL.EXE" instead.  That is, unless Microsoft port their compiler to a
non-Windows platform.

James.