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Re: PATCH RFA: Use $(COMPILER) to build objects
- From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:55:46 +0200
- Subject: Re: PATCH RFA: Use $(COMPILER) to build objects
- References: <m3my97xapb.fsf@google.com>
Hello Ian,
* Ian Lance Taylor wrote on Thu, May 21, 2009 at 07:54:24AM CEST:
> This is a preliminary step toward supporting a configure option to build
> gcc using either a C compiler or a C++ compiler. I think it would lead
> to long term confusion to use $(CC) in a Makefile to represent a C++
> compiler. This patch instead arranges to compile all code using
> $(COMPILER). CFLAGS changes to COMPILER_FLAGS and ALL_CFLAGS changes to
> ALL_COMPILERFLAGS. The COMPILER make variable is currently always set
> to $(CC); my intent is that in the future, a configure option will
> permit it to be set to either $(CC) or $(CXX).
FWIW, I don't see any problems with this patch (I cannot approve it),
but this scheme will probably not extend cleanly over to Automake-
generated makefiles. That may not be a problem for GCC at all, I just
thought I'd mention it.
Cheers,
Ralf