Re: Test failure (pma) with gawk-5.2.0 beta

[arnold]

Hi.

Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I think the issue is that the -no-pie configure test looks for 'clang' or 
> 'gcc'.
>
> But ${CC} for me at that point is 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc'. If I set CC=gcc,
> it appends -no-pie and the test passes (all of them do, in fact).

So that is indeed the issue.

> I think it'd be better to use AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG or similar?

I will investigate this.

> Alternatively, *clang* or *gcc* may work (but a bit fragile).

And this is the fallback. I will work on it.

Can you build from git?

Thanks!

Arnold