Arjan van de Ven wrote:
There is a good answer to that question, and that is, the kernel is the
special case. It DOES make sense to let the distribution set the
default to whatever they think the end user should use for applications.
yeah.. but it's called "CFLAGS environment variable" :-)
Absolutely not. Setting a CFLAGS environment variable has an effect
which is at very best unpredictable when dealing with a great span of
applications. Setting a CC environment variable is actually safer in
many ways, but even that is cantankerous.
-hpa
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