I've recently encountered another program that had CC hardcoded, so passing the flag wouldn't do anything. I had to edit the Makefile.
inetutils (or in reality, autoconf/automake) don't hard code CC to anything. If you would like more, I can whip out a test when I wake up and submit log results. I'd like to see check.log and make.log at least -- since you haven't specified what exactly fails or what the error is.. If you can make a smaller test case, that would be wonderful. Cheers, Alfred.
