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From: rbj@uunet.uu.net (Root Boy Jim)
Subject: Re: compiling perl 4.003 on a Convex, take 2
Message-ID: <1991May20.192456.20658@uunet.uu.net>
Keywords: pcc mode
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Date: Mon, 20 May 1991 19:24:56 GMT

tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:

>I just set CCOPTIONS in my environment ...

Um, shouldn't that be CFLAGS?
Which program believes in them anyway, make or cc?

If make believes imports CFLAGS from the environment,
there is no reason that cc should use CCOPTIONS.

>I still think God intended code to be compiled in pcc mode.  ANSI 
>and POSIX were invented by lawyers and pharisees.  :-)

ANSI and POSIX are mutually exclusive. POSIX is more important.
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