From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: install stuff 
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 11:08:00 -0000
Message-id: <18300.881003317@cygnus.com>
References: <199712011518.HAA21889@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00035.html

  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