Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 20:12:24 +0100 (BST) From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) To: ache@astral.msk.su (Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage) Cc: adam@freefall.cdrom.com, alm@freefall.cdrom.com, ats@freefall.cdrom.com, bde@freefall.cdrom.com, csgr@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-gnu@freefall.cdrom.com, davidg@freefall.cdrom.com, dyson@freefall.cdrom.com, guido@freefall.cdrom.com, hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, joerg@freefall.cdrom.com, jvh@freefall.cdrom.com, karl@freefall.cdrom.com, martin@freefall.cdrom.com, nate@freefall.cdrom.com, paul@freefall.cdrom.com, phk@freefall.cdrom.com, proven@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@freefall.cdrom.com, rich@freefall.cdrom.com, sean@freefall.cdrom.com, sef@freefall.cdrom.com, smace@freefall.cdrom.com, sos@freefall.cdrom.com, wollman@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cc26/cc Makefile Message-ID: <199408231912.UAA00187@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <qCjuZMkqY2@astral.msk.su> from "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" at Aug 23, 94 10:21:33 pm
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In reply to Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage who said > > It can cause problems with most GNU packages, which use configure > to sence 'gcc' as best than standard 'cc' and insert 'gcc' into > Makefile after it. Now anybody who want translate GNU stuff need > to be warned about this thing. That's not a problem. Those scripts select gcc over cc in the belief that gcc will somehow be better than cc. Well in our case it won't be because our cc IS gcc so the script can quite happily fail to find gcc and continue ahead "making do" with cc. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, ELSYM ,University of Wales, College Cardiff Internet: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK
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