[tlbuild] mflua c99 trial rebuild

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:21 AM Mojca Miklavec <
mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 at 22:51, Karl Berry wrote:
> >
> > If you have a chance, please try to rebuild TL with the current sources
> > to see if the mflua addition needs more work in practice. Right now
> > we're just hoping that a simple unconditional -std=c99 is enough. That
> > won't work for all compilers, but maybe it will work for everything we
> > care about?
>
> I suspect that any compiler that can handle C++11 should also be able
> to handle C99.
> All the platforms that we build on our build farm were OK with the change.
>
> I'm not 100% happy with this solution though.
> We already require C99 in tons of other places, but we do it via an
> autoconf macro that only adds the flag when necessary.
>

Indeed at some point this will be the final solution .


-- 
luigi
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