With my default environment (everyone's default?) I cannot emerge bzip2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.unset CC 2.emerge gzip2 Actual Results: Compiler error Expected Results: installed Either defined CC, modify ebuild to not include CC="$(CC)" on command line, etc. Ideally probe to see if CC is defined. There is a bug 8201 or something like that which complains that CC definition is ignored.
i believe the correct way of doing it is: inherit gcc $(gcc-getCC)
fixed in cvsz0r