On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 03:46:35PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > As detailed in 2c8921db2b8 (travis-ci: build with the right compiler, > 2019-01-17) the reason we started using $CC in $MAKEFLAGS as opposed > to setting it in the environment was due to Travis CI clobbering $CC > in the environment. This is not what 2c8921db2b8 detailed; in fact 2c8921db2b8 detailed the exact opposite. Travis CI did not clobber $CC, it set $CC to what we asked it to. We started using $CC in $MAKEFLAGS as opposed to setting it in the environment, because our Makefile _ignores_ $CC in the environment.