On 2010-10-28 11:31, Volker Braun wrote:
> Making every 3rd party author adhere to the standard usage of CC/CXX
> is a bit like herding cats. It would be the cleanest fix to patch all
> the different build systems, sure. But wouldn't it be easier if Sage
> would set up its own gcc wrapper in $SAGE_LOCAL/bin? The first step of
> the Sage build process would then be to determine which architecture
> and compiler one wants to use set up the wrapper accordingly. Then you
> needn't have every spkg kludge around OSX 64bit brokenness, make sure
> that it calls the right linker on Solaris, ...

That actually sounds like a very clever idea to me...

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