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Re: dkms: Build with an alternative like compiler rather than gcc



On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 4:37 PM,  <Mario.Limonciello@dell.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Petter Reinholdtsen [mailto:pere@hungry.com]
>> Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 9:32 AM
>> To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com; David Paleino; Aron Xu; Limonciello, Mario; Giuseppe
>> Iuculano
>> Cc: Dynamic Kernel Modules Support Team; debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: Re: dkms: Build with an alternative like compiler rather than gcc
>>
>>
>> [Sedat Dilek]
>> > As a workaround I have symlinked my mycompiler wrapper-script to
>> > /usr/bin/gcc.  That works.
>> >
>> > What is the recommended way to do this correctly?
>>
>> Perhaps you should use dpkg-divert to ensure your replaced gcc is not
>> lost in a future package upgrade?
>>
>> The DKMS team in Debian need active members.  I'm not one of them. :(
>>
>> --
>
> I think this is an upstream problem not at all specific to Debian's implementation.
> I would recommend to bring this discussion upstream to get it fixed there.
>
> I believe DKMS unsets CC before starting build, but maybe that's wrong to do
> in this instance.
>

Personally, I do not think it is an upstream problem.
Unsetting CC before DKMS starts the build would explain the behaviour/handling.

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