* Brian J. Murrell wrote on Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 09:51:25PM CEST: > > I was just surprised that I could set CFLAGS and LDFLAGS and additional > linker arguments on a per target basis but not specify a compiler and/or > linker on a per target basis. > > Would this be something difficult to add or relatively simple, just not > really been so much of a demand for it thus far?
You can set foo_LINK to override the link command, but that contains more than just the linker. Overriding CC in a way that is more than just adding to CFLAGS is a bit illogical from a theoretical POV: most configure tests are done for a specific compiler; if you actually had two separate compilers with possibly different features, then with current Autoconf, you'd need two different configure scripts to test them separately. Yes, I know, MPI compiler wrappers often are less problematic than that (except for the abundance of shell quoting errors that they used to have ...), but I didn't claim theory = practice above. ;-) Cheers, Ralf
