Am 2015-05-24 um 11:10 schrieb Michael Wood:
> On 24 May 2015 10:17 AM, "Michael Osipov" <1983-01-06_at_gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> Am 2015-05-24 um 08:37 schrieb Michael Wood:
>>>
>>> Why does curl need to know it's being
>>> compiled by the HP native compiler?
>>
>> In order ti properly set compiler flags.
>
> But what does "properly" mean given that it works either way?

Properly means that HP aCC has some different compiler flags compared to
GCC and will issue a warning. HP ld will even fail.

The reason why it still works is that configure detects cc without
knowing that is is HP aCC and probably uses default flags, though I did
not verify this.

Michael

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