Re: config.guess does not see config.site environment settings

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Bob,

thanks for the report.

* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 04:01:48AM CEST:
> If compilation options like CC and CFLAGS are set (or updated) via a
> config.site file, it appears that config.guess gets invoked without
> these set in its environment so config.guess behaves differently
> than if CC and CFLAGS were provided on the configure command line.
> This is surely wrong behavior.

Probably the right solution to this is to document that config.site
should export the variables it sets (because in general, configure
cannot know the set of variables you would like to have set).  Does
the override work when you do that?

Thanks,
Ralf