Re: [autoconf-conversion] Re: Toplevel configury, multilibs, new autoconf versions

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:02:29AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > *cackle*  I have sneakily removed the bit of shell code in configure which
> > treats CXX as a "precious" variable.  Other precious variables are still
> > passed around but CXX is correctly inherited from the environment like we
> > want it to be.
> 
> Why not CC, AS and LD too?  I wonder if autoupdating newlib and other parts
> of the unified tree will have similar issues.

Because AS and LD aren't touched by config-ml.in, and libstdc++-v3 doesn't
use $CC (or should be, at least.)

My local-changes tree happens to be a unified one, and I didn't have any
problem with the faked multilib build (for whatever that's worth).


> Also, did you do this by modifying the configure script manually or by
> overriding an Autoconf macro definition?

The latter.

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