Re: conftest files

[Albert Chin]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:59:04AM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Index: lib/autoconf/general.m4
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/lib/autoconf/general.m4,v
> retrieving revision 1.926
> diff -u -r1.926 general.m4
> --- lib/autoconf/general.m4   7 Jul 2006 14:21:57 -0000       1.926
> +++ lib/autoconf/general.m4   16 Aug 2006 08:54:41 -0000
> @@ -2403,7 +2403,10 @@
>        [$2],
>        [_AC_MSG_LOG_CONFTEST
>       $3])
> -rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
> +# Delete also the IPA/IPO (Inter Procedural Analysis/Optimization) 
> information
> +# created by the PGI compiler (conftest_ipa8_conftest.oo), it would interfere
> +# with the next link command.
> +rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest_ipa8_conftest.oo \
>        conftest$ac_exeext m4_ifval([$1], [conftest.$ac_ext])[]dnl
>  ])# _AC_LINK_IFELSE

What's the 8 in ipa8 for? Compiler version? Maybe ipa? instead?

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