Re: [PATCH trace-cmd 3/3] Revert "trace-cmd: Use conditionalassignment of CC and AR"

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 22:43 -0800, Darren Hart wrote:

> > I don't know the answers, but if we take the kernel Makefile as a
> > template, then setting CC doesn't work.
> 
> The kernel is a bit special I believe as it is pretty tied to gcc. Is 
> trace-cmd tied to gcc to such a degree that we want to make it difficult 
> for people to try different compilers?

True, trace-cmd is tied more to glibc (special features) than gcc.

I just looked at the Makefile for evolution, and it has:

CC = gcc

So it is not limited to just the kernel.

-- Steve


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