[issue1633863] AIX: configure ignores $CC

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> cc_r does not seems to be able to compile py3k, so it seems to be a bad 
> idea to force it by default.

Python should be able to compile with any C89-compliant compiler, so it seems a good idea to open a bug for compile errors instead.
In this case, the fix is trivial, though, so I'm simply committing it (replace a C++-style comment ("// ...") with a normal "/* ... */")). Can you try again with r84799?

That said, it seems xlc (or xlc_r) enables additional C extensions compared to cc, so perhaps it's beneficial to use it anyway?

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