Re: Compiler choice

[Adam Fedor]

Sir Raorn wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 12:43:56PM +0400, Markus Hitter wrote:
>
> > But isn't GNUstep expected to have the name of the compiler 
> > hardwired somewhere in $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT? Then, configure 
> > should use this name, too, IMHO.
> If it will set CC, than answer is NO WAY!
>
>
> > As there is a easy workaround, I'll look for a patch later.
> GNUstep.sh:
> export GNUSTEP_CC=gcc3 # (defined at compile time)
>
> configure[.in]:
> if [ -n "$GNUSTEP_CC" ]; then
>   CC=$GNUSTEP_CC
> fi
>
> For example...

Well that would work for CC, but what if the user wanted to set 
something else? CFLAGS, or LD, or any number of things.

In general (and the docs state this), when configuring the gnustep 
libraries, you need to pass the same configure options to configure for 
each library. There's no way in general to know which configure options 
were given to configure.



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