Re: readline does not compile anymore on HP-UX since d5f26b1287916c1790323965d46f5e0acad89155

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/17/21 11:30 AM, dima.pasechnik@cs.ox.ac.uk wrote:

>>> I guess I'll have to work around it.
> The docs of AC_PROG_CC say that if CC was not found to be gcc, GCC won't be 
> set to
> "yes". And this suffices for all coding purposes.

Not exactly. It makes an affirmative statement:

"If using the GNU C compiler, set shell variable GCC to ‘yes’."

and doesn't say anything about what will happens if CC is not gcc.

(https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/C-Compiler.html)

But now that we know, it's not a problem to work around.

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