Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: Craig Silverstein CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] hang running configure on redhat AS2.1
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Craig Silverstein wrote:
> Weird. I wonder why it's hanging on your system. I don't know if
> it's a problem with your configuration, with redhat as2.1 in
> particular, or with some subset (as yet undetermined) of all gcc 2.96
> systems.
2.96 must be quite old, since the current gcc is 4.xx.
> This particular test will only ever be true for OS X, as far as I
> know, so there's probably a way to detect we're on redhat, and disable
> the check then. But I'd rather not add that complexity unless we can
> confirm it's more widespread than just your machine.
