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Re: [PATCH] add GCC_OPTIONS
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 23:10:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] add GCC_OPTIONS
- References: <20030625212357.GA47034@dragon.nuxi.com>
David O'Brien wrote:-
> This patch takes an idea from GNU Grep and adds support for the
> "GCC_OPTIONS" environmental variable. This is *very* useful when one is
> building a read-only source base and one needs to tweak the options used
> by GCC. Examples are adding -g, -save-temps, -v, or -m32.
>
> Unfortunately the more direct "env CC='gcc -g' make" often doesn't work
> as developers frightening often hard code "CC=gcc" in Makefiles, or worse
> just use "gcc" directly in the target's build rules.
>
> OK to commit to main-line?
I think we'd discussed this before and the idea was rejected because
it would make bug reports harder to understand. I don't know if this
is still the consensus.
Neil.