From a23a5505c4f9048b2275d297913118d828cc85af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wilson Snyder <wsnyder@wsnyder.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:20:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] configure: Check compiler works.

---
 configure.ac | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 350013c93..501239c1d 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ AC_TYPE_SIZE_T
 # Checks for compiler characteristics.
 AC_C_INLINE
 
+AC_LINK_IFELSE(
+     [AC_LANG_PROGRAM([], [[int* a=new int; delete a; ]])],
+     [], [AC_MSG_ERROR([$CXX does not seem to successfully compile a simple C++ program])])
+
 AC_DEFUN([_MY_CXX_CHECK_FLAG],
    [# _MY_CXX_CHECK_FLAG(flag) -- Check if compiler supports specific options
     # Set $_my_result appropriately