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Re: proposal: Default settings from environment

Neal D. Becker writes:
 > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 01:03 pm, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Neal D. Becker writes:
 > >
 > > I'm a bit mystified by this.  Why can't you use $CC instead of gcc,
 > > with $CC set to "gcc arg arg..."  ?
 > 
 > The problem is not for me to modify my makefiles.  The problem is to setup 
 > defaults for my users.  They may or may not know anything about gcc or make.

So, if they don't know anything about gcc, why can't you tell them
"Don't type `gcc`, type `$CC` or things won't work right." ?

In other words, why does your command that invokes gcc with some
appropriate default options have to be called "gcc"?

Andrew.
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