CC, CPP etc vs CONFIGURE_ENV

[Charles Swiger]

Hi--

On Nov 6, 2013, at 6:27 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> I wonder why do-configure target explicitly sets things like CC="${CC}"
> CPP="${CPP}" etc in configure script environment as opposed to them just being
> placed into CONFIGURE_ENV.
> What is the technical reason?

Setting $CC and such worked with older ./configure which didn't implement $CONFIGURE_ENV.
It also plays more nicely with things which roll their own ./configure as a shim
that isn't actually GNU autoconf.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck