> Why not: make CC=""cc -pipe". Worked for me for years.

That was my first choice, but other options I used would cause extra gunk
to be output when cc is used for assembling, preprocessing, or linking, so
I quit doing that. Given the amount of inertia I seem to be running into
on this issue, I may just go back to that. I'm pretty sure the extra gunk
was harmless.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com