Re: support for SunPRO C/C++ on Linux

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Bruno,

* Bruno Haible wrote on Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:44:42PM CEST:
> 
> Here is a patch that adds support for Sun's C and C++ compilers 5.9, ported
> from Solaris to Linux. They exist for x86 and x86_64; I tested it only on x86.

Thanks!

> The compiler executable for C is called 'c89' and 'c99' (two slightly
> different programs); for C++ it is called 'CC'.

How unfortunate.  Several compilers on GNU/Linux install themselves with
links or wrappers named c89 or c99.  I don't think all of them
understand -KPIC, and none of the others will understand '-Qoption ld'.
We should probably do a --version|-V test as well to disambiguate.
(To keep the size overhead down, we may want to map version strings to
compiler base names somewhere earlier; ugh.)

> With this patch, the FAILs are turned into PASS; all tests PASS or SKIP.

Which ones skip?

Cheers,
Ralf