Re: perl5's use of $(CCCMD)

Andy Dougherty wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> 
> Perl's Configure only gives you two variables ($cc and $ld) for those
> three functions.  The mapping is done via hints files and lots of
> special case code sprinkled all over the place.
> 
> There's no reason Configure couldn't introduce a new variable, $link,
> default it to $cc nearly everywhere, and use it in Makefile.SH.

If someone cleans this up, recovering (making more reusable) at least
some of the ld-related information in Makefile.SH (right at the top)
would be nice, too.