On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 02:33:35PM -0400, Isaac D. Cohen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry if I'm bothering everyone too much lately. I just have a short
> question this time. I continued on in the book and it says to set
> the variables CC, AR, and RANLIB. So I'm wondering whether that is a
> one time thing (just for that compilation) or should I add them to my
> .bashrc file? I wonder because the book doesn't make it clear. It
> says to set those variables before compiling binutils pass 2 and then
> again before compiling gcc pass 2. So it sounds like they don't need
> to be permanent. But does the book mean that they should be
> permanent/set before each build? Or does it mean that they should
> only be set for binutils and gcc pass 2?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Isaac D. Cohen
>
In those two builds, the three variables are passed to the configure
script. The line continuations ('\') mean that this is all one long
command, so those variable settings are only in effect when
configure is run.
ĸen
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