Protect against having no such command as 'cc'

Protect against having no such command as 'cc'

ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) wrote:

>> At some stage Configure asks "Which memory models are supported?"
>> In order to find the default to this question, Configure compiles
>> and runs a little test program.  To compile this test program,
>> Configure uses straigt "cc", not "$cc", presumably because it
>> doesn't know $cc at that point (that's the next question).

>This is very suspicious, since I do not have cc at home (OS/2), but
>no failure of Configure happens.  Or did you imply that Configure just
>ignores the failure, or runs it on some platforms only?

It ignores the error.  On my unix box, I get a message

	Configure: cc: not found

You could suppress that message with this patch:

p5p-msgid: 1997May12.163534.2006434@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu