Re: {bb} cc, gcc, and makefile

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj@umdnj.edu>]

Extremely annoying, not because that's how it works, but because it's 
not clear how it works. I've edited the parameter in other places before 
and half built with cc and half with gcc (and as I recall, one half 
exploded :)). It appears as if there are places where CC is set simply 
for documentation purposes, as you can set it to something different 
there and run make and it will not affect your build. When I run make, I 
expect it to use the Makefile I've specified, not make a new one.

I agree completely that a Makefile should be gen'd during the config 
process... that is how probably everything I've encountered does it.

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Philip Clark wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 15:31, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
>   
> > I feel like I have tried that and it does not work.
> >
> > The very annoying thing about the build of this product is that it 
> > completely overrides environment variables, making you edit genmake if 
> > you want to set something (you can't even edit the makefile). As on most 
> > platforms, I'd prefer to use the compiler I paid for (which is likely 
> > better optimized than gcc anyway), this is extremely annoying.
> >     
>
> Extremely? I have a long list of things that annoy me more than quirky
> build processes :) I can recommend the book "Is It Just Me, Or Is
> Everything Sh*t?", by Lowe and McArthur (ISBN 0 316 72953 1). Much of
> it may be specific to the UK, but who could fail to be annoyed by the
> "Intel Inside" tune? I'm buying AMD until Intel stop it and apologise. 
>
> It looks like the environment is ignored because make (all) calls the
> genmake script, which effectively overrides it. Maybe genmake should be
> part of the bbconfig process. That would provide a natural break in
> which users could tweak the OS specific makefile.
>
> In this case, it would appear that GCC was specifically being ignored
> for AIX. Perhaps this is a historical thing and GCC on AIX didn't work
> properly at some point. I'd expect that the modification that Martin
> suggested (or even just removing the CC="gcc" statement from the
> "aix" clause) should do the trick. Setting and alias for "cc" might
> also be sufficient.
>
> Cheers, Phil.
>
>
>
>   

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