[vsipl++] Re: overriding autoconf's own exeext detection

[Stefan Seefeld]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Does the patch below fix it?

It looks good, though there is at least one more extension: '.inf',
which is generated with optimization. Other files with extensions
'.dbo', '.dla', etc. are created when object files are produces,
but these don't seem to confuse configure.

>>From a look into the relevant code it seems it would be
>>possible to fix this by adding some extensions to the
>>exclusion list, though I'm not sure how robust / scalable
>>a solution that is.
> 
> 
> Well, a shell pattern for exclusion is cheap, and the number of
> different things to exclude seems not so high, so I think that's
> the best solution for now.  Until one compiler produces an extension
> that needs to be excluded for another one.

That's exactly my concern. As you can see above, the list of
extensions to be excluded is growing...

Also, if I want to avoid upgrading autoconf, is there a way
to fix the problem locally, say, in my aclocal.m4 file ?

Thanks,
		Stefan