configure: Allow HOST_CC to override CC

According to the INSTALL, "The HOST_* variables override not prefixed
variables". This change makes it so, instead of previous behavior, which
was to ignore the HOST_CC environment variable.

Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3ffbc7c57bd48dadf242a9ce215530e595f3ce88..7c08ec1bed9fa751000ae6dd55aa4b46f2d366da 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ grub_TRANSFORM([grub-sparc64-setup])
 grub_TRANSFORM([grub-render-label])
 grub_TRANSFORM([grub-file])
 
+# Allow HOST_CC to override CC.
+if test "x$HOST_CC" != x; then
+  CC=$HOST_CC
+fi
+
 # Optimization flag.  Allow user to override.
 if test "x$TARGET_CFLAGS" = x; then
   TARGET_CFLAGS=-Os