[PATCH] add GCC_OPTIONS

[David O'Brien]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:10:54PM +0100, Neil Booth 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.
...
> 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.

I don't think ld's documented "LDEMULATION" environmental variable as
made binutils bug reports harder to understand.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)