Hi,
We have started to discuss this issue in #7652, but I still could not
reproduce this problem on a 9.1-RELEASE. (But got another one, see
what I wrote you in private.)
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Kazu Yamamoto
This caused an error:
Configuring terminfo-0.3.2.5... configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-compiler, --with-iconv-includes, --with-iconv-libraries, --with-gmp-includes, --with-gmp-libraries, --with-gcc checking for gcc... cc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/usr/home/kazu/work/ghc/libraries/terminfo': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
For GCC, "cc" is guessed.
This is probably because the C compiler is guessed from the value of the CC environment variable, see the --help flag of "configure": Some influential environment variables: CC C compiler command CFLAGS C compiler flags LDFLAGS linker flags, e.g. -L<lib dir> if you have libraries in a nonstandard directory <lib dir> LIBS libraries to pass to the linker, e.g. -l<library> CPPFLAGS (Objective) C/C++ preprocessor flags, e.g. -I<include dir> if you have headers in a nonstandard directory <include dir> CPP C preprocessor
I think that the --with-gcc option for "configure" does not work well and we need to fix this.
Independently of that, I think you are right, one should not necessarily set CC in order to redefine the "gcc" used. I could take a look at that.