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From: benson@odi.UUCP (Benson Margulies)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Using Different Compilers
Message-ID: <295@odi.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 19:30:49 GMT
Reply-To: benson@odi.UUCP (Benson Margulies)
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Organization: Object Design Inc., Burlington, MA
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Those of us who install PURDUE speedups on suns and want to use GCC are
in the position of wanting to use different values for CC in different
places. I've been fighting with Imake for a while now, and failed
to get the desired behavior from the combination of sun4 make and imake.

In the directories that I wanted gcc-compiled, I added the line

CC=gcc 

at the top of Imakefile. If I cd to such a directory (and after making
the makefile) do a make, the right thing happens. When I cd to the server
dir and do a make, somehow my setting of CC is undone. I can only imagine
that since there is a CC= in the top level Makefile as in all of them,
that even without -e sun's make is contriving to use it to override the
explicit settings.

Can anyone offer a recipe? Could the guru dept consider a convention
for having a failsafe way to change the compile name?

-- 
Benson I. Margulies