Re: DB 3.3.11 configure fails to detect gcc

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> writes:

> The annoying part is that I can't just 'cd' into db and run './configure
> CC=gcc' first and then go back to subversion and build it from scratch,
> as subversion's configure script will later re-run db's configure script
> (without the CC set) and then it'll fail...

> *but* setting 'CC=gcc' in the top-level will cause neon's configure output a
> warning: "configure: warning: CC=gcc: invalid host type" (in several places)
> Isn't this a bug?

Use:

    env CC=gcc ./configure

to run the top-level configure. Being able to set environment variables
as options to configure is a very new feature and I think was introduced
in autoconf 2.50.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra_at_stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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