[ccache] Support for color diagnostics

Loïc Yhuel loic.yhuel at gmail.com
Sat Nov 30 15:54:35 MST 2013


Le 30/11/2013 11:07, Lubos Lunak a écrit :
> On Saturday 30 of November 2013, Loïc Yhuel wrote:
>> Le 29/11/2013 14:08, Lubos Lunak a écrit :
>>> On Friday 29 of November 2013, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>>>>    Hello,
>>>>
>>>>    the attached patch adds ccache support for compiler color diagnostics
>>>> (also reported by somebody as #10075).
> ...
>> I think you didn't understand GCC documentation correctly.
>   Actually I think I did. I've now tried with a chroot (openSUSE build service
> really is a useful tool) and it pretty much matches my understanding of the
> documentation.
>
>>   From the man page : "The default GCC_COLORS is ... Setting GCC_COLORS
>> to the empty string disables colors."
>> GCC enable colors when GCC_COLORS is not set, and your code doesn't.
>   From the man page: "The default is ‘never’ if GCC_COLORS environment variable
> isn't present in the environment".
>
>> In fact you don't have to test GCC_COLORS at all : when it's an empty
>> string (not unset !), colors are disabled , and adding
>> -fdiagnostics-color doesn't change anything.
>   The patch does not add -fdiagnostics-color when GCC_COLORS is empty.
>
Sorry, I didn't check : the default is auto on Fedora, and not upstream...
That's why we don't see the same behavior.
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gcc.git/tree/gcc48-color-auto.patch



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