[distcc] Re: distcc and multiple compilers

[David Sanderson]

Martin Pool wrote:
| On 13 Dec 2002, David Sanderson <dsanderson at panasas.com> wrote:
| > I'm trying to figure out how we could use distcc for our compilation
| > needs, and I've run into a problem.  Our compilation system uses the
| > environment (particularly, PATH) to choose between compilers, rather
| > than the compiler's name or its command-line switches.  A single build
| > might use several compilers selected in this way.
| > 
| > We already have an infrastructure set up that makes a given compiler
| > available under the same directory on all our machines, so if distccd
| > could run its command using the environment inherited by the distcc
| > command, it could then automatically run the correct compiler on
| > distcc's behalf.
| 
| I'm not sure it's really necessary to add that to distcc itself.
| 
| You can pass a fully-qualified compiler name to distcc, e.g.
| 
|  distcc /opt/gcc-2.32939213/bin/gcc -c hello.c
| 
| and it will pass that across the network and use it on the server.

Thanks!  I'll try that.

David Sanderson (dsanderson at panasas.com)