NB> Unless you specify -pipe.  Perhaps our kind
    NB> totally-not-overworked BUGTRAQ moderator :-) would like to see
    NB> whether GNU autoconf sets -pipe automatically when gcc is
    NB> detected?  (I think so but unfortunately don't have much
    NB> sources handy at the moment.)
  Ah, but -pipe has it's own problems with autoconf. It stops various
tests working - eg, the asm tests for ssh, and various assembler tests
for GNU binutils (from memory). As a complete solution, this lacks a
certain something :)
m.