34759 - NSPR's Makefiles don't honor configure's CC/CXX assignments

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(NSPR :: NSPR, defect, P3)

Description

[moof]

do `CC="gcc -L/usr/pkg/lib -R/usr/pkg/lib -I/usr/pkg/include" CXX="g++
-L/usr/pkg/lib -R/usr/pkg/lib -I/usr/pkg/include" ./configure; gmake` at the
TLD.

Watch NSPR utterly fail to honor the CC/CXX assignments. (Manually doing `gmake
CC="gcc -blahblahblah"` works as usual.)

Comment 1

[Wan-Teh Chang]

cls: could you take a look at this bug?  Thanks.

Comment 2

[cls]

It's another symptom of the non-configure build behavior.  The only way to
override the default variables in the classic build is to pass them on the make
command line or (untested) to put them in nsprpub/config/my_overrides.mk.  We
could override CC in that file but then we'd always override nspr's default
settings for those variables.  At that point, you might as well just use
--enable-nspr-autoconf.

Comment 3

[Wan-Teh Chang]

The report is doing the configure build.
He says:
    CC="..." CXX="..." ./configure; gmake

Comment 4

[cls]

Ok, here's the source of confusion.  Is "TLD" mozilla/ or mozilla/nsprpub ?

Comment 5

[Wan-Teh Chang]

Aha.  I thought he meant mozilla/nsprpub, hence
the confusion.

Comment 6

[cls]

dogcow, can you clear up the ambiguity here and then let us know if the problem
still occurs if you use --enable-nspr-autoconf when building mozilla?

Comment 7

[cls]

I think that introducing additional variables to nspr_my_*.mk to conditionally
override CC/CXX would cause more problems than it could solve.  The recommended
solution is to use --enable-nspr-autoconf which already supports this feature.