> > Personally I'm against the env var idea as it would make it harder to > > figure out what's going on. I think someone mentioned that the same > > effect could be achieved using spec files. > > > Ian mentioned the idea of creating small wrapper scripts with the names: > gcc/g++ etc which just call the real gcc/g++... adding the necessary > command line args. These can then just be put earlier in the search path. > > I currently use the env var method in my project, but I think the > wrapper script idea is a bit nicer than using env vars personally, so i > will likely change to that soon.
That's right. It's a nicer solution. We just already have environment variables in our ICI implementation, but it can be useful if we will one day switch to the common plugin system without support for env variables ... Cheers, Grigori > Brendon.
