On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 07:17:57PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> >Are you sure that this is not breaking scripts which parse the output of
> >e.g. cc?
> 
> This change only applies in cases where the compiler is failing anyway, 
> so I don't think it will break much things. The error message is written 
> to stderr, so it does not interfere with output from "cc -E", for example.

Oh, I know that it only applies to error cases. But even the parsing of
error messages is sometimes done.

> >I also don't like the way this pollutes e.g. the already
> >obscure output of configure. Can we direct this to a file please?
> 
> No. :) The sole intention of this change was to make this message visible.

I think it is too verbose.

Joerg