From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:06:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Change the default compiler from "gcc" to "cc"
Message-ID: <CACBZZX629-hP6kPR1rHQ1E7SoXHSE0a_S8G0Lm0m4=aizk+6hA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vr4zyiyih.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 01:01, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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?