Re: Argh. config.guess breaks things

[Ben Elliston]

> BTW this problem doesn't just occur on RedHat Linux boxes without a C
> compiler.  I have a RedHat 6.1 box here which has gcc installed, but
> only as `gcc' and not as `cc'.  I'm not totally sure how it got this
> way since the egcs rpm does have /usr/bin/cc in.  I suspect I built
> gcc-2.95.2 from scratch with egcs-1.1.2 and then uninstalled egcs to
> make sure that nothing could use it by mistake.

This is a known flaw in config.guess.  I have every intention of fixing
it, soon.  It's crazy that a script of such importance fails to use `gcc'
if `cc' isn't present.

Ben