RE: dkms: Build with an alternative like compiler rather than gcc

[<Mario.Limonciello@dell.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Petter Reinholdtsen [mailto:pere@hungry.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 9:32 AM
> To: sedat.dilek@gmail.com; David Paleino; Aron Xu; Limonciello, Mario; Giuseppe
> Iuculano
> Cc: Dynamic Kernel Modules Support Team; debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: dkms: Build with an alternative like compiler rather than gcc
> 
> 
> [Sedat Dilek]
> > As a workaround I have symlinked my mycompiler wrapper-script to
> > /usr/bin/gcc.  That works.
> >
> > What is the recommended way to do this correctly?
> 
> Perhaps you should use dpkg-divert to ensure your replaced gcc is not
> lost in a future package upgrade?
> 
> The DKMS team in Debian need active members.  I'm not one of them. :(
> 
> --

I think this is an upstream problem not at all specific to Debian's implementation.
I would recommend to bring this discussion upstream to get it fixed there.

I believe DKMS unsets CC before starting build, but maybe that's wrong to do
in this instance.

Thanks,