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Re: convert-archive.in uses "gcc" instead of $CC
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: convert-archive.in uses "gcc" instead of $CC |
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Mon, 7 Jun 2010 03:01:22 +0200 |
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Hi,
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> In gettext 0.18.1.1 at least, gettext-tools/misc/convert-archive.in tries to
> compile something using the program "gcc" instead of using the value of the
> environment variable $CC like the rest of the gettext compilation does.
>
> [snip]
> # Set a nonstandard variable, for a good-looking cvs history.
> cvsuser=bruno
> gcc -shared -fPIC -O cvsuser.c -o cvsuser.so
> cvsuser_hack=`pwd`/cvsuser.so
> [snip]
This is known to be a hack. It also sometimes does not work on bi-arch systems.
But this won't be fixed, because
- the worst effect of this thing is only a couple of error messages to stderr,
that can be ignored.
- the --with-cvs option has already been deprecated.
Bruno