The following reply was made to PR pkg/30234; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de>
To: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, pkg-manager@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/30234: IRIX: PKGSRC_COMPILER=gcc uses mk/wrapper/gcc.mk,  butcalls
 /usr/bin/cc (which is MIPSpro)
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 20:44:23 +0200 (CEST)

 > >  could you use the new tools framework to create a symlink cc pointing to your
 > >  gcc?
 > 
 > I guess I don't quite follow you.
 > 
 > Btw, setting _USE_NEW_TOOLS=no has no effect either.
 
 yes. The problem is that many packages expect the CC compiler to be
 called as cc. So it is not a bug of pkgsrc but rather a feature that has
 not yet been addressed. :-)
 
 Now what you could do is trying to make use of the new tools framework by
 having it create a symlink called cc in the .tools/bin directory pointing
 to your gcc compiler. This should take priority over your system cc.
 I am not sure however whether the later wrapper stage will already recognize
 this when it searches for a usable cc. As a workaround you could also
 manually create a respective symlink in your ${LOCALBASE}/bin directory
 (which, unfortunately I should say for other reasons, the cc wrapper
 does detect and prefer).
 
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