Stepan Kasal <kasal@xxxxxx> writes: > A question: is there any reason to use rm -f conftst2.* > instead of rm -f conftst2.$ac_objext > Is there any C, Fortran, or F77 compiler which could create other > conftst2.* files if it receives -o conftst2.$ac_objext ? Quite possibly, yes. But why not name these files "conftest2.c" etc? Then the already-existing "rm -f conftest*" will clean them up. We don't need to worry about 8.3 file systems any more, on development platforms anyway. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf