On Wed, 11 Oct 2023, Evgeny Grin wrote:
This wouldn't work for the original problem: detection of C++-style comments by force enabling C89-only to check that sources still could be compiled with C89 compiler.
Yes, it seems that efforts have gone off the rails and are trying to address some other problem.
The problem is that Autoconf is defeating the recipient's freedom to select the compilation settings used.
The person who is compiling the software should be able to specify the parameters to use used.
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