[vlc-devel] [PATCH 2/4] contrib: set the native C/C++ compiler by default if not provided

[Steve Lhomme]

On 14/02/2019 19:04, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le torstaina 14. helmikuuta 2019, 19.22.50 EET Steve Lhomme a écrit :
>> In Debian+WSL these are not available (x86_64-pc-linux-gcc and
>> x86_64-pc-linux-g++) on my system.
>>
>> But 'c99' and 'g++' are available. So it may be a good idea to detect
>> them from bootstrap (see other patch).
> We no longer detect c99, and never detected c89 because we switched to C11.

That's what BUILDCC does (which IMO should be renamed for more build 
system consistency, see https://patches.videolan.org/patch/20805/)

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob;f=configure.ac;h=1f4ac52374e0497ff2f2f06918b2e39297fe07b1;hb=HEAD#l62