aprantl added a comment.

In D119850#3326266 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D119850#3326266>, @thakis wrote:

> (I wish there was a flag that said "clang, never ever read any env vars 
> please". Some people think that builds should be deterministic and not depend 
> on random env vars people might have set (and then not do correct incremental 
> rebuilds when the value of such env var flags change). But given that clang 
> already reads a whole bunch of such env vars and we can always add such a 
> flag later, I suppose this change doesn't make things that much worse.)

These are all good points. The environment variables are useful to side-step 
the many project-specific build systems that you have to deal with when 
building an entire OS and this is also the primary use-case here.


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