Re: [EXAMPLE-PATCH] Autodetect -march=i586/686

jepler-linux@zero.aec.at
Fri, 29 May 1998 13:43:53 +0200


On Thu, May 28, 1998 at 07:11:53PM -0400, Nicholas J. Leon wrote:
>
> Since I'm posting useless patches, here's another. It detects whether your
> compiler is capable of handling
> -march=i586
> and/or
> -march=i686
>
> for those egcs/gcc 2.8 people. I am hoping that since we are a long way
> away from using GNU's autoconf (or something similiar), this may give some
> ideas to people.

Does this DTRT if you're doing a multiple-job make? Seems like this could
make false negatives, if two start the $(shell) at the same moment, and one
rm's before the other performs the gcc...

Jeff
* DTRT = do the right thing, but you knew that

-- 
Jeff Epler jepler@inetnebr.com (an american student living in France)

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