[distcc] Re: Distributing with SPARCworks 4.2 or Forte 6.1 Solaris compiler?

[Ben Elliston]

>>>>> "Hien" == Hien D Ngo <hien at moses.xp.com> writes:

  Hien> If you specify '-P -o /tmp/filename.i' CC will ignore the
  Hien> directory and put the .i file into your current directory.  I
  Hien> have not been able to coax it into doing the right thing with
  Hien> the documented command line options.  With cc, you can specify
  Hien> '-P - o /tmp/filename.i' and it will put the file where you
  Hien> tell it to.

  Hien> So it looks like the only way to support the CC SW/Forte
  Hien> compiler is to use '-E' and redirect stdout to
  Hien> /path/filename.i.

An alternative would be to run this compiler inside a shell script
wrapper that makes it Do The Right Thing.  Then no changes to distcc
would be required.

Ben