------- Comment #22 from ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-08-07 06:23
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> This isn't just about sparc64, you know. The whole reason why this came up in
> the first place is because I'm building GCC in a custom autobuild framework,
> across a number of architectures. For every other autotoolized package, I set
> CC, CXX, {CC,CXX,CPP}FLAGS, and everything works. It's really annoying to have
> GCC, a pretty important package, so thoroughly flout the convention that all
> the other GNU toolsets adhere to.
I'd also challenge this assertion: I don't think you can generically tweak
CFLAGS, in particular change the ABI, once a package has been configured.
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