[m-rev.] for review: add configure.in option

[Fergus Henderson]

On 14-Jun-2002, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Peter Ross, Thursday, 13 June 2002:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 
> > ===================================================================
> > 
> > 
> > Estimated hours taken: 0.25
> > Branches: main
> > 
> > Allow one to test for a sufficiently recent compiler in configure.in
> > by testing whether an option exists.  This is useful for when the test
> > cannot be easily done some other way.
> 
> Isn't the datestamp in the compiler's opening message sufficient for
> this sort of thing?

No, because there isn't necessarily a datestamp in the compiler's opening
message (e.g. if it was built via CVS checkout, the version is just
"DEV").

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