[LLVMdev] Building llvm from source with clang instead of gcc

[Edward Diener]

On 01/05/2013 12:58 PM, Krzysztof Parzyszek wrote:
> On 1/5/2013 11:48 AM, Edward Diener wrote:
>>
>> It would have been much better if the environment variables were named
>> LLVM_CC and LLVM_CXX for the obvious reason that CC and CXX are very
>> common names.
>
> Actually, the variables CC and CXX are used exactly as they are always
> used: to set the C and C++ compiler. Frankly, I don't see why you would
> prefer to use different ones.

I did not realize that this was a standard use of the CC and CXX 
environment variables under Linux.