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Re: PATCH: Fix config-ml.in (take 2)


On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 05:15:13PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:25:47AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > config-ml.in sets environment with ${ml_config_env}. But configure
> > may override them if the same variable is passed at the command
> > line in ${ml_arguments}. One of them is CC, among others. This patch
> > makes sure the ones in ${ml_config_env} will be used.
> > 
> > 
> 
> It turns out that not all configures can take FOO=bar.

Exactly.  This is why we had to un-precious the CC/CXX variables in
libstdc++.

We might be able to bring them back, once all the configures are converted.

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
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