Re: kbuild: Implicit dependence on the C compiler

[Marcin Dalecki]

On 2005-01-19, at 04:35, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > I would argue that "name of gcc has changed" is possibly a condition
> > > that does more harm than good.  It is just as frequently used to have
> > > wrappers, like distcc, as it is to have different versions.
> > Disagree. I switch compilers all the time and kbuild does the right
> > thing for me.
> > I do occassionally feel your 'make install' pain and some sort of
> > 'make __install' might be called for.
>
> As I said, I don't mind the default being there, it's certainly 
> consistent with the default being safe.  However, not being able to 
> override it is bad.

Just please consider

CC ?= gcc

instead of

CC = gcc

in Makefiles. I assume it does precisely what you want. So I think 
anybody arguing against
you is just arguing about a single ASCII character...

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