Ability to override compiler from environment

[Andrew Haley]

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> Martin Buchholz skrev  den 24-06-2008 19:57:
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>> I am in favor of the fundamental change to a "configure + make" model,
>> instead of configury stuff being done in the Makefiles as is the
>> current practice.
>>   
> I agree, but I have understood that this work has been done in IcedTea
> already.

No, it hasn't.  We've only made a top-level wrapper script: the rest
hasn't changed.

Andrew.