bpo-38443: Check that the specified universal architectures work (GH-22910)

As [bpo-38443]() says the error message from configure when specifying --enable-universalsdk with a set of architectures that is not supported by the compiler is not very helpful.   This PR explicitly checks if the compiler works and bails out if it doesn't.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index e665d135e67..9ee750b70f4 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -7611,6 +7611,31 @@ $as_echo_n "checking which MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to use... " >&6; }
         { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET" >&5
 $as_echo "$MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET" >&6; }
 
+        { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking if specified universal architectures work" >&5
+$as_echo_n "checking if specified universal architectures work... " >&6; }
+        cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+#include <stdio.h>
+int
+main ()
+{
+printf("%d", 42);
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+if ac_fn_c_try_link "$LINENO"; then :
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: yes" >&5
+$as_echo "yes" >&6; }
+else
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
+$as_echo "no" >&6; }
+             as_fn_error $? "check config.log and use the '--with-universal-archs' option" "$LINENO" 5
+
+fi
+rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+    conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+
         # end of Darwin* tests
         ;;
     esac