-# figure out if gcc is available and if so we use it otherwise
-# we fallback to whatever cc does on the system
-GCCVER=`(gcc -dumpversion) 2>/dev/null`
-if [ "$GCCVER" != "" ]; then
- CC=gcc
- # then strip off whatever prefix egcs prepends the number with...
- # Hopefully, this will work for any future prefixes as well.
- GCCVER=`echo $GCCVER | LC_ALL=C sed 's/^[a-zA-Z]*\-//'`
- # Since gcc 3.1 gcc --version behaviour has changed. gcc -dumpversion
- # does give us what we want though, so we use that. We just just the
- # major and minor version numbers.
- # peak single digit before and after first dot, e.g. 2.95.1 gives 29
- GCCVER=`echo $GCCVER | sed 's/\([0-9]\)\.\([0-9]\).*/\1\2/'`
-else
- CC=cc
+# Only set CC if not supplied already
+if [ -z "$CROSS_COMPILE$CC" ]; then
+ GCCVER=`sh -c "gcc -dumpversion" 2>/dev/null`
+ if [ "$GCCVER" != "" ]; then
+ # then strip off whatever prefix egcs prepends the number with...
+ # Hopefully, this will work for any future prefixes as well.
+ GCCVER=`echo $GCCVER | LC_ALL=C sed 's/^[a-zA-Z]*\-//'`
+ # Since gcc 3.1 gcc --version behaviour has changed. gcc -dumpversion
+ # does give us what we want though, so we use that. We just just the
+ # major and minor version numbers.
+ # peak single digit before and after first dot, e.g. 2.95.1 gives 29
+ GCCVER=`echo $GCCVER | sed 's/\([0-9]\)\.\([0-9]\).*/\1\2/'`
+ CC=gcc
+ else
+ CC=cc
+ fi