In article <40CE0588.3010002@distal.com>,
	Chris Ross <cross+netbsd@distal.com> writes:
>    Most things cope with this just fine, but it appears
> that build.sh has "cc" built into it.  Without setting
> HOST_CC to "gcc" it tries to invoke "cc".

Yes, because "cc" is the default name for the C compile on most Unix like
operating systems including Solaris.

>    Should this be fixed, or is the correct solution to
> always set HOST_CC?

How do you think this could be fixed? Using "gcc" is plain wrong because
there are a lot of systems with a fine working C compiler which is not GCC.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/