From c5d6277ace183cf4261c13cc9b44a53ec1622199 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:53:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] rename an internal environment variable

---
 lib/std/zig.zig | 2 +-
 src/main.zig    | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/std/zig.zig b/lib/std/zig.zig
index 6cd6deecb66f0070411926184fd48929eb6c03f0..cdb2e857cd3aff3019476837147c57c50318de7e 100644
--- a/lib/std/zig.zig
+++ b/lib/std/zig.zig
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ pub const EnvVar = enum {
     ZIG_VERBOSE_CC,
     ZIG_DEBUG_CMD,
     ZIG_IS_DETECTING_LIBC_PATHS,
-    ZIG_IS_TRYING_TO_NOT_CALL_ITSELF,
+    ZIG_IS_AVOIDING_CALLING_ITSELF,
 
     // C toolchain integration
     NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE,
diff --git a/src/main.zig b/src/main.zig
index 6e47c30a30bb0e15d5f742c151a444a426ff91cd..1c33a168f4ef7e0dae3608885f994eb49fe4cd82 100644
--- a/src/main.zig
+++ b/src/main.zig
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ fn mainArgs(
         // However it's possible Zig is installed as *that* C compiler as well, which is
         // why we have this additional environment variable here to check.
 
-        const inf_loop_env_key: EnvVar = .ZIG_IS_TRYING_TO_NOT_CALL_ITSELF;
+        const inf_loop_env_key: EnvVar = .ZIG_IS_AVOIDING_CALLING_ITSELF;
         if (inf_loop_env_key.isSet(environ_map)) {
             fatal("{s}", .{
                 "The compilation links against libc, but Zig is unable to provide a libc " ++
-- 
2.54.0