On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 01:01, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> However unlike Linux Git is written in ANSI C and supports a multitude >> of compilers, including Clang, Sun Studio, xlc etc. On my Linux box >> "cc" is a symlink to clang, and on a Solaris box I have access to "cc" >> is Sun Studio's CC. >> >> Both of these are perfectly capable of compiling Git, and it's >> annoying to have to specify CC=cc on the command-line when compiling >> Git when that's the default behavior of most other portable programs. > > Would this affect folks in BSD land negatively? I see my mail back it December didn't include a reply to that for some reason. Anyway like Linus said probably not, also the BSD's I use have cc as a symlink to whatever the default compiler is, which is usually gcc. I've recently been hacking git on Solaris again and keep getting bit by this, I'd like to propose it for inclusion again, the patch still applies. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html