[Freeciv-Dev] Re: MacOS X ./configure

[Greg Wooledge <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brian Olson (locke@xxxxxxx) wrote:

> But, any thoughts on the difficulty of getting autoconf/configure to 
> detect a presence/absence of stderr output on a command like
> $CC -no-cpp-precomp -E - < /dev/null
> ?

The naive way would be something like this:

  $CC -no-cpp-precomp -E - < /dev/null > /dev/null 2> config.stderr
  if test -s config.stderr; then
    echo $ac_n "Uh oh: $ac_c" 1>&6
    cat config.stderr 1>&6
  else
    echo "Cool." 1>&6
  fi

But I'm very very far from being an autoconf guru.

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