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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/cc26/cc Makefile
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In reply to Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage who said
>   
> It can cause problems with most GNU packages, which use configure
> to sence 'gcc' as best than standard 'cc' and insert 'gcc' into
> Makefile after it. Now anybody who want translate GNU stuff need
> to be warned about this thing.

That's not a problem. Those scripts select gcc over cc in the belief that
gcc will somehow be better than cc. Well in our case it won't be because
our cc IS gcc so the script can quite happily fail to find gcc and continue
ahead "making do" with cc.

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  Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member.
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