hey Ralf thanks for ur guidance! I am in no mind to get GNU to promote the sun studio stuff... all i want is to modify autoconf such that it looks for sun compilers on solaris machines... which is why i think ur reply suits my needs perfectly!!! thanks a ton! and yes, i would make it go for the sun compilers ONLY on solaris machines...as you suggested -Sanjay On 9/7/07, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Sanjay, > > * Sanjay Gianchandani wrote on Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 02:55:16PM CEST: > > I have been working on Solaris, and have been trying to increase the > > efficiency of autoconf built softwares on the system. > > The main issue here is that autoconf by default, and as a rule, uses the > GNU > > based compilers to make the software, while > > on Solaris, Sun Studio compilers prove to be much more efficient. > > For yourself, just get in the habit of using > .../configure -C CC=cc CXX=CC F77=f77 FC=f95 > > or write a config.site file that sets these as defaults once and for > all, for your system; see > <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Site-Defaults.html> > for more information. > > If you want to change the defaults for your specific package, but every > user of it, then you can put something like > : ${CC=cc} > : ${CXX=CC} > # ... > > in your configure.ac, right before AC_PROG_CC; but be warned that users > may not like your decision all that much and at least require that you > do this only on Solaris. For that, invoke AC_CANONICAL_HOST and then > match $host against *-*-solaris*: > AC_CANONICAL_HOST > case $host in > *-*-solaris*) : ${CC=cc} ... ;; > esac > AC_PROG_CC > > As to changing Autoconf's defaults globally, i.e., for everyone and > every package without package-specific modifications: preference of GCC, > the GNU Compiler Collection, is a policy decision. From an effort point > of view, you'd have more luck in improving GCC so that it ends up being > the better compiler, than getting GNU to promote a proprietary compiler > over its own free one. ;-) > > Cheers, > Ralf > -- **************************************************************************** §âñjây ************************Words from my heart**************************** We dont need no education! give us free pizza instead ;) ***************************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
