From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Mohammed Sadiq <sadiq@sadiqpk.org>
Cc: 28629@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28629: Add cc as a symlink to gcc
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 03:19:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87poabffy8.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1581054962.12450.1506572966287@webmail.mailhostbox.com> (Mohammed Sadiq's message of "Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:59:26 +0530 (IST)")
Mohammed Sadiq <sadiq@sadiqpk.org> writes:
> Some packages seems to rely on cc as the C compiler. So within some environment,
> let cc be symlinked to the default gcc of the environment.
This has been discussed before, and it was decided that in such cases,
we should do what's needed to make the build system use gcc. Usually
that simply entails adding "CC=gcc" to #:make-flags. If you search for
"=gcc" in gnu/packages/*.scm, you'll find many such examples.
Mark
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-28 7:21 UTC|newest]
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2017-09-28 4:29 bug#28629: Add cc as a symlink to gcc Mohammed Sadiq
2017-09-28 7:19 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
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