install stuff
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Mon Dec 1 11:08:00 GMT 1997
In message <199712011518.HAA21889@cygnus.com>you write:
> >Can you have examples of problems this causes? I've had no problems with
> >this on the alpha (either osf or linux).
>
> Ok, eg. for powerpc-unknown-linux-gnulibc1:
> - configure calls config.guess before determing the cc to use
> - config.guess defaults to ${CC-cc} for the compiler
> - if CC is not set and cc is not in the path (gcc only system, egcs also
> does not install any symlink from gcc to cc), all compile attempts in
> config.guess will fail and some default values will be used.
Ah. I see.
I guess linux is one of the few systems that doesn't have "cc" of some
sort (either a vendor compiler or as a link/front-end to gcc).
I'll cobble up something.
Jeff
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