Why can configure.compiler be cc or gcc?

[Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia]

On Nov 4, 2013, at 17:07, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 05:00:04PM -0800, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
>> Yes, if building from source, we should error out if
>> (/usr/include/stdlib.h doesn't exist) or ((the xcode version is "none"
>> or "") and (OS is macosx)).
> 
> Note that doing this will cause the postflight script to fail for users
> without Xcode or the command line tools using an outdated binary
> installer, which might not be what we want.

Why is that?

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