758752 - Stop checking to make sure that the compiler can create binaries on Windows

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[(no longer active)]

See bug 758732 comment 6.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

It's a little fiddly, but m4 is just a macro-expansion language, so you can grab the definitions of existing macros and munge them. The only good example I know of this is:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/build/autoconf/acwinpaths.m4

where we fiddle the results of some macros to handle Windows paths.

Comment 2

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

arguably, the AC_TRY_COMPILE macros should be doing the same thing as AC_LANG, so why don't we fail in AC_TRY_COMPILE but do in AC_LANG?

Comment 3

[(no longer active)]

So is this <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/tree/lib/autoconf/c.m4#n58> (and its C++ equivalent) what we need to override?

(Not that I'm volunteering, m4 looks like Latin to me!)