CC not getting -O passed?

When I configure PG using:

CC=cc CXX=CC ./configure --prefix=/home/ler/pg-test --enable-syslog --with-CXX --with-perl --enable-multibyte --with-includes=/usr/local/include --with-libs=/usr/local/lib

CC doesn't see the -O flag.

CC -g -K PIC -I/usr/local/include -I../../../src/include -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -c -o pgconnection.o pgconnection.cc
CC -g -K PIC -I/usr/local/include -I../../../src/include -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -c -o pgdatabase.o pgdatabase.cc
CC -g -K PIC -I/usr/local/include -I../../../src/include -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -c -o pgtransdb.o pgtransdb.cc
CC -g -K PIC -I/usr/local/include -I../../../src/include -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -c -o pgcursordb.o pgcursordb.cc
CC -g -K PIC -I/usr/local/include -I../../../src/include -I../../../src/interfaces/libpq -c -o pglobject.o pglobject.cc
CC -G -Wl,-z,text -o libpq++.so.3.1 pgconnection.o pgdatabase.o pgtransdb.o pgcursordb.o pglobject.o -L/usr/local/lib -L../../../src/interfaces/libpq -lpq -Wl,-R/home/ler/pg-test/lib

Why?
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