COMPILER_TYPE and installworld

[Adrian Chadd]

On 4 November 2015 at 23:08, O'Connor, Daniel <darius at dons.net.au> wrote:
>
>> On 5 Nov 2015, at 16:31, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> So! In the short term, is there any way that during
>> installworld/installkernel we can also set CC, etc appropriately?
>> Otherwise we're either using the wrong compiler logic/version
>> (installkernel) or we're just plain not going to work (installworld.)
>
> Why does installworld/kernel care what the compiler type is?

There's some stuff that's conditionally compiled based ont he
compiler. Don't ask. :)


-a

> Or is it just something incidental which gets pulled in that complains because it can't work it out? If so perhaps the easiest way would be to add a flag which turns off compiler detection and set it for install*
>
> If install* _do_ need to know the compiler type then, bleh..
>
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