> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> writes:
> > It seems configure only checks whether linking was successful. I think
> > it should check whether ./conftest was successful.
>
> Wouldn't work when cross-compiling.
But configure already does this, doesn't it?
configure:24466: checking for working memcmp
configure:24519: gcc -o conftest -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wendif-labels
-fno-strict-aliasing -D_GNU_SOURCE conftest.c -lz -lreadline -lncurses -lcrypt -ldl -lm >&5
configure:24522: $? = 0
configure:24528: ./conftest
configure:24531: $? = 0
configure:24547: result: yes
> What platform is this exactly?
The Linux distributions is "Vine Linux", which is a variant of Red Hat
Linux (I think).
$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.16-0vl76.33 #1 SMP Fri Feb 15 11:06:36 JST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan