[cfe-dev] Recognize CC and clang-CC?

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 05:58:11PM +0000, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 7 Nov 2013, at 17:46, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 12:27:13PM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
> >> The upper case CC is a traditional UNIX naming of
> >> C++ compiler.  BSDs follow this, and cmake regards
> >> it as the host C++ compiler as well.
> > 
> > NetBSD doesn't. I'm moderately sure OpenBSD and DragonFly don't either.
> > Frankly, I don't know what tradition outside FreeBSD you are talking
> > about -- pretty much everyone has been using "c++" as canonical name for
> > the C++ compiler for ages.
> 
> It's an IRIXism.  We're going to be removing CC soon, but for
> compatibility it would be nice to have this in, incase users decide
> to install the CC -> clang symlink themselves.

Provide a shell wrapper as short term workaround with a blinking red
warning that this is obsolete?

Joerg