Ability to override compiler from environment

[Christian Thalinger]

On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 08:31 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > configure: error: "motif headers were not found -
> >         try installing lesstif-devel."
> > 
> > which I now remember to be the place where I gave up the last time as 
> > apparently Motif is not available under OpenSolaris and "pkg search 
> > lesstif" did not show any packages.
> > 
> > I'll look at building lesstif and see what happens then...
> 
> This really shouldn't be necessary anymore. At least not for
> icedtea/jdk7, there might still be some header constants used in
> icedtea6/openjdk6, but if so we should backport the fixes to remove them
> and remove this check.

That would be really nice, as I am currently trying myself to get
OpenJDK/IcedTea built on OpenSolaris.  I'm currently stuck at finding an
appropriate bootstrap JVM, as it seems Boehm-GC has some problems on
Solaris.  But this may be also a CACAO bug, I'll investigate this
further...

- twisti