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Re: RFA: Avoid -Werror bootstrap failure with BUILD_CC=gcc-2.95

Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk> writes:

> Zack Weinberg wrote:-
>
>> >> > GCC 2.95 warns here; GCC 3.4 is smarter.  OK?
>> >> 
>> >> This is fine as a defensive move, go ahead and check it in, but could
>> >> you please try to figure out why BUILD_CC isn't getting overridden in
>> >> stage 2 of a bootstrap?
>> >
>> > Well, that's easy.  The question is, do we want BUILD_CC == CC?
>> 
>> You had to go and ask that.  Now I am not sure.
>
> Well, am I right in saying that only native compiles ever enter stage 2?
> If so, it can't hurt for BUILD_CC to be the same as CC during stage2.

See, that's what I thought, but maybe there's some weird scenario
where the user needs to override BUILD_CC during stage 2.  Except I
can't think of one.

zw
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