Re: convert-archive.in uses "gcc" instead of $CC

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> In gettext 0.18.1.1 at least, gettext-tools/misc/convert-archive.in tries to
> compile something using the program "gcc" instead of using the value of the
> environment variable $CC like the rest of the gettext compilation does.  
> 
> [snip]
>     # Set a nonstandard variable, for a good-looking cvs history.
>     cvsuser=bruno
>     gcc -shared -fPIC -O cvsuser.c -o cvsuser.so
>     cvsuser_hack=`pwd`/cvsuser.so
> [snip]

This is known to be a hack. It also sometimes does not work on bi-arch systems.
But this won't be fixed, because
  - the worst effect of this thing is only a couple of error messages to stderr,
    that can be ignored.
  - the --with-cvs option has already been deprecated.

Bruno