--- gforth/configure.in	1995/10/11 19:39:32	1.13
+++ gforth/configure.in	1995/11/29 20:20:33	1.14
@@ -1,6 +1,15 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
+
 AC_INIT(engine.c)
 
+GCC=${GCC-gcc}
+AC_SUBST(GCC)
+
+dnl configure needs $CC to find out some parameters, and there may be
+dnl differences in what is obtained from gcc and from the default cc.
+dnl Therefore, we define $CC to be gcc:
+CC=$GCC
+
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(force-reg,
 [  --enable-force-reg	  Use explicit register declarations if they appear in
 			  the machine.h file. This can cause a good speedup,