On Monday, March 14, 2005 11:27:08 AM +0100 Harald Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(e.g. most Solaris versions need the C compiler from the SUNWspro suite).
I wrote configure 2 tests a long time ago which test if the Solaris or the AIX compiler are "good enough". Still waiting for them to be used.
According to my view of things, folks setting CC should know what they do and the makefiles should not override it. For folk _not_ setting CC the makefiles can do what they figure is best.
Unfortunately, this is pretty hard to get right, because once the AC_PROG_CC test has run, there is really no way to tell if the resulting value of CC came from the user or from the test. And it's pretty hard to get AC_PROG_CC not to run.
Further, I don't think it's reasonable to assume that folks setting CC on configure's command line understand the kernel compiler issue, or that people who do understand the issue necessarily want to override the kernel compiler whenever they set CC to select a userland compiler.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sr. Research Systems Programmer School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
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