Christian Biere writes:
| You could also run this:
|  $ make show-var VARNAME=CC_VERSION
| 
| and add the output to the Makefile analogous to the existing items.
| I wonder what this **** is about anyway but I guess I don't want to
| know.

Well, I guess that this **** (as you say :-) is needed because the
festival sources won't compile with gcc-4, which tends to be the default
nowadays... (I tried to force it compile it with gcc-4 and it actually
fails).

But if simply adding GCC_REQD=3.4 in the Makefile to pull up gcc-3.4
would work, I wonder why it's not been done this way? Anyway, I'll try
that and see what happens.

Thanks!