On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 04:11:48PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 20:06 +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > icc/ifc use flags: > > * These are scary. Using a different compiler should not be achieved > > by setting a useflag, neither local nor global one. > > You are correct. However, it might be necessary to patch something that > won't compile with icc, but does compile with gcc. I think this is the > primary reason for the icc USE flag. >
Yes, it is. As far as I know the icc USE flag doesn't actually change your compiler anywhere (it shouldn't) -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list