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From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: CC, CPP etc vs CONFIGURE_ENV
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I wonder why do-configure target explicitly sets things like CC="${CC}"
CPP="${CPP}" etc in configure script environment as opposed to them just being
placed into CONFIGURE_ENV.
What is the technical reason?

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Andriy Gapon