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almostnormal on March 31, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Xz: Can you spot the single character that disable...

Does autotools compile only, or try to link? There's no main().

jwilk on March 31, 2024 | [–]

AC_COMPILE_IFELSE indeed only compiles, so there's no need for main().

There's AC_LINK_IFELSE if you want to test linking too.

jan3000 on March 31, 2024 | [–]

There is a main()...[0]

[0] https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blob;f=CMakeLists.txt;h=...

jwilk on March 31, 2024 | [–]

That's not autotools.

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