In message 42897D34.1D5EDE7@vollmann.ch you wrote:
You better know exactly what you are doing, so having to remember the correct command is a Good Thing (TM).
Hmm, so if my host's C compiler happens to be named gcc, I don't have to remember, but if it happens to be named differently (ncc, como, gcc-3, acc, ...) I need to remember? Strange policy...
What is strange about this? You will have to do the same whith about any Makefile I know.
Well, that's the way all the packages using 'configure' work. They pick up whatever is defined in your environment at configure time.
We don't use configure, though.
And as I wrote, my most preferred solution would be something like 'HOSTCC=gcc-3 make xyz_config'. To achieve this, a simple line like '[ $HOSTCC ] && echo "HOSTCC = $HOSTCC" >> config.mk' in mkconfig would probably suffice. But maybe there's another (better) way.
What makes it difficult for you to use
make HOSTCC=gcc-3 xyz_config instead of HOSTCC=gcc-3 make xyz_config ??
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk