The following reply was made to PR pkg/29142; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: jlam@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/29142: bsd.wrapper.mk rev. 1.13 breaks non-gcc compilers
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:23:28 +1100

 On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:28:02PM +0000, Johnny Lam wrote:
 
 >  The code is intended to allow a user to set both CC and PKGSRC_COMPILER 
 >  in /etc/mk.conf, e.g.
 >  
 >  	CC= /my/beta/sunpro/cc -super-optimize
 >  	PKGSRC_COMPILER= sunpro
 
 I suppose this is a desirable thing to support, since outside
 pkgsrc-land, one is usually able to set CC to something like the above
 and have things Just Work. this desire might rule out adding something
 new like PKGSRC_CFLAGS ...
 
 >  The problem here, which I didn't detect on my GCC system, is that the 
 >  value of CC in sys.mk is implicitly set before any CC in /etc/mk.conf is 
 >  set.  I verified this on my system by adding:
 >  
 >  	CC?= myflargle
 >  
 >  to /etc/mk.conf and running "make show-var VARNAME=CC" in 
 >  pkgsrc/security/priv, which yielded "cc", the value set from sys.mk.
 
 right, I'd forgotten about this...
 
 >  By the time compiler.mk is included, there isn't any way to determine 
 >  where CC is being set -- all we know is that it's been pre-defined 
 >  before compiler.mk is included.
 
 I've been trying to think of ways that we could possibly remove the
 definition of CC/CXX (and others) from sys.mk, but that may pose a
 problem with using bmake for non-pkgsrc purposes.
 
 grant.