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False negative in -c and -o check


From: Ola x Nilsson
Subject: False negative in -c and -o check
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 12:26:13 +0200

When building ncurses with the Yocto Krogoth release I encountered the
following situation:

* The CC variable is set to 'arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc -march=armv7-a
  -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=hard -mcpu=cortex-a9 -D__ARM__
  --sysroot=.../yocto/cvp-krogoth/builds/board/tmp/sysroots/board'

* This triggers the 'checking the $CC variable' test cleanup code
  (CF_ADD_CFLAGS ?) and sets CC to plain 'arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc'.

* The 'checking whether $CC understands -c and -o together' test
  fails.

* The build fails because gcc cannot find init_keytry.h when building
  init_keytry.c, probably due to extra 'cd obj_s' in the commandline.

The '-c and -o' test fails because it cannot find the stdio.h header,
not because the -o and -c options are not allowed together.  The
reason for the failure is that arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc is
configured to require the --sysroot argument, and the default sysroot
is invalid.

Now, you can debate whether this is a sane configuration of
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc and CC, but there is no question that the
'-c and -o' test may fail due to unrelated factors.

Also the fallback for compilers that does not support both -c and -o
seems to be broken.

Removing the -D__ARM__ option provided a workaround for me, as the
'checking the $CC variable' test only checks for -I, -D, and -U
flags. 

The version of ncurses used was 6.0+20160213 downloaded from
git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/ncurses.git, but as far as I can
see the error should be reproducible with the sources in
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-6.0.tar.gz .


-- 
Ola x Nilsson



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