[MinGW-notify] [ mingw-Bugs-3307453 ] make sets CC=cc, not gcc

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Bugs item #3307453, was opened at 2011-05-25 13:35
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Submitted By: Fabian Greffrath (fabian_deb)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: make sets CC=cc, not gcc

Initial Comment:
Hi,

I wonder why both make implementations (i.e. mingw32-make and MSYS make) have "CC=cc" preset, although the C compiler in MinGW is called "gcc".

A binary called "cc" simply does not exist in MinGW and "make" is thus defective by design. Even a most simple Makefile like "all: test", where test.c is e.g. a hello world program, fails with 

$cat Makefile
all: test

$make
cc     test.c   -o test
make: cc: Command not found
make: *** [test] Error 127

The CC variable is not even left undefined, it is explicitely set to "cc", so even macros like "CC?=gcc" do not work. This does not really add to portability.

I understand if make implementations should be kept as little GNU-specific as possible, but then I wonder why "CXX=g++" is preset at the same time.

Cheers,
Fabian

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