Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com> writes:
  > There should probably be some way to turn off these checks,
just
  > in case they get a false positive.  Or a developer _wants_ to
  > compile with known bad configurations to try and fix the
  > problem. --i-know-what-im-doing-dammit=yes ?
 
 To someone able to track down a compiler bug and provide workaround,
 hacking the configure script is no hurdle at all. 
I wouldn't bet on it.  There are people that cope with compiler bugs
just fine, but can't stand various brain-damages inflicted by
`configure'.