gcc

This is rather trivial, but it was bothering me sometime ago.

Is there a reason why the C compiler is hardwired to be the GNU one?

I suppose it's fine for Linux, CYGWIN and a couple of other systems,
but I suspect other non-GNU compilers can handle CLG's code just as
well.

I believe that modifying forms like:

     (run-shell-command "gcc ~A -o ~S ~{~S~^ ~} ~{~A~^ ~}"
      #-(or darwin win32)"-shared"
      #+darwin "-bundle"
      [...]

into

     (run-shell-command "~A -o ~S ~{~S~^ ~} ~{~A~^ ~}"
      #-(or darwin win32 freebsd linux)"cc -shared"  ; cross your fingers and hope it's GNU
      #+darwin "cc -bundle"
      #+freebsd "cc -shared"
      #+linux "cc -shared"
      #+win32 "gcc -whatever"
      [...]

would be more portable.

-- 
walter pelissero
http://www.pelissero.de

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