Re: [PATCH 23/25] CI: stop over-setting the $CC variable

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 5, 2022, 08:17 UTC
Message-ID: <20220305081746.GA1655@szeder.dev>
In-Reply-To: <patch-23.25-8a8b7ecf16b-20220221T143936Z-avarab@gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 03:46:35PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> As detailed in 2c8921db2b8 (travis-ci: build with the right compiler,
> 2019-01-17) the reason we started using $CC in $MAKEFLAGS as opposed
> to setting it in the environment was due to Travis CI clobbering $CC
> in the environment.

This is not what 2c8921db2b8 detailed; in fact 2c8921db2b8 detailed the exact opposite. Travis CI did not clobber $CC, it set $CC to what we asked it to. We started using $CC in $MAKEFLAGS as opposed to setting it in the environment, because our Makefile _ignores_ $CC in the environment.

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