From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:01:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Change the default compiler from "gcc" to "cc"
Message-ID: <7vr4zyiyih.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1324424447-7164-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> However unlike Linux Git is written in ANSI C and supports a multitude
> of compilers, including Clang, Sun Studio, xlc etc. On my Linux box
> "cc" is a symlink to clang, and on a Solaris box I have access to "cc"
> is Sun Studio's CC.
>
> Both of these are perfectly capable of compiling Git, and it's
> annoying to have to specify CC=cc on the command-line when compiling
> Git when that's the default behavior of most other portable programs.

Would this affect folks in BSD land negatively?