Re: AC_PROG_CC_C_O doesn't work with VC++

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:52:38AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> >     rm -f -r conftest* confdefs* conf$[$]* $ac_clean_files
> 
> How about if you simply remove conf[0-9]* instead?  Those file names
> are all reserved by Autoconf anyway.  And it's more consistent to
> always remove all of them, instead of removing some hard-to-explain
> subset.

yes, this sounds good.

But when we got that far, is there any reason why Autoconf tests should
use conf$$*?  Isn't conf2.obj or conftest2.obj cleaner?

(I know, with conftest2.* one has to carefully think about 8.3 systems.)

Stepan