bug#41579: [PATCH 0/2] Introduce 'cc-for-target'.

[Marius Bakke]

Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello Marius,
>
>> To reduce duplication, the following patch introduces a 'cc-for-target'
>> procedure, so one can instead do:
>>
>>   (string-append "CC=" ,(cc-for-target))
>>
>> ...and it will DTRT.
>
> This is definitely a nice improvement! Sometimes the issue also extends
> to AR and LD for instance.
>
> This has been discussed here[1]. Maybe we should deal with that directly
> in the build system, and provide suitable default values for CC, AR, LD
> & friends, when cross-compiling.

That makes sense.  Can't think of any cases where setting these would
have an adverse effect, though I'm sure plenty of stuff will break.  ;-)

> Anyway, your patch is already a big improvement and it LGTM.

Thanks for checking, pushed!

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