check whether FLAGS are accepted by the compiler

2005-05-30

Steven G. Johnson <stevenj@alum.mit.edu> and Matteo Frigo.

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Check whether the given compiler FLAGS work with the current language's compiler, or whether they give an error. (Warnings, however, are ignored.)

ACTION-SUCCESS/ACTION-FAILURE are shell commands to execute on success/failure.

AC_DEFUN([AX_CHECK_COMPILER_FLAGS],
[AC_PREREQ(2.59) dnl for _AC_LANG_PREFIX
AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether _AC_LANG compiler accepts $1])
dnl Some hackery here since AC_CACHE_VAL can't handle a non-literal varname:
AS_LITERAL_IF([$1],
  [AC_CACHE_VAL(AS_TR_SH(ax_cv_[]_AC_LANG_ABBREV[]_flags_$1), [
      ax_save_FLAGS=$[]_AC_LANG_PREFIX[]FLAGS
      _AC_LANG_PREFIX[]FLAGS="$1"
      AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM()],
        AS_TR_SH(ax_cv_[]_AC_LANG_ABBREV[]_flags_$1)=yes,
        AS_TR_SH(ax_cv_[]_AC_LANG_ABBREV[]_flags_$1)=no)
      _AC_LANG_PREFIX[]FLAGS=$ax_save_FLAGS])],
  [ax_save_FLAGS=$[]_AC_LANG_PREFIX[]FLAGS
   _AC_LANG_PREFIX[]FLAGS="$1"
   AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM()],
     eval AS_TR_SH(ax_cv_[]_AC_LANG_ABBREV[]_flags_$1)=yes,
     eval AS_TR_SH(ax_cv_[]_AC_LANG_ABBREV[]_flags_$1)=no)
   _AC_LANG_PREFIX[]FLAGS=$ax_save_FLAGS])
eval ax_check_compiler_flags=$AS_TR_SH(ax_cv_[]_AC_LANG_ABBREV[]_flags_$1)
AC_MSG_RESULT($ax_check_compiler_flags)
if test "x$ax_check_compiler_flags" = xyes; then
	m4_default([$2], :)
else
	m4_default([$3], :)
fi
])dnl AX_CHECK_COMPILER_FLAGS