[PPL-devel] Re: conftest.cc disappearing in a misterious way

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Toby White wrote on Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:03:33PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de> writes:
> >
> > I now did that, too.  First thing: I find only one reference to
> >   "conftest.cc: No such file"
> > and while there are numerous such with conftest.c, reasons for failure
> > are usually:
> 
> I don't know if this is ueful; but I came across a similar issue
> some months ago with a configure script for Fortran, where conftest.f
> was vanishing. The culprit turned out to be an errant trap which was
> being triggered elsewhere, which specifically deleted conftest.*, but
> somehow didn't stop the configure script proceeding.
> 
> The ultimate cause turned out to be a buggy compiler on the platform in
> question - unfortunately I can't remember precisely the details of how
> that resulted in the odd behaviour; but I do remember it being very
> difficult to find, until I discovered the trap in question.

This sounds like a good culprit candidate.  Do you remember which shell
this was on, and the exact configure script?  It'd be good to be able to
reconstruct what triggered the trap and whether that is a shell bug or a
configure.ac script bug or an Autoconf bug.

Regards,
Ralf