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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ifc USE flag, fortran support and some general notes about multi-compiler support
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:30:11
Message-Id: 1093465700.25119.6.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ifc USE flag, fortran support and some general notes about multi-compiler support by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 15:25, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > Nah, USE isn't the right place for it. Ebuilds should respect the
3 > environment variables selecting compilers, such as CC, CXX, FC and so
4 > forth. The USE flags should be for other things, e.g. patches that are
5 > required for a specific compiler to work.
6
7 This doesn't make any sense. USE flags shouldn't be sticking their heads
8 in at all. The patches should check what CC/etc. are set to.
9 --
10 Donnie Berkholz
11 Gentoo Linux

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