[distcc] using distcc to speed up gcc bootstraps

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Aug 16, 2002, Phil Edwards <phil at jaj.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 05:19:12AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> The other problem in libstdc++-v3 seems to be a bug in distcc:
>> libstdc++-v3 tries to runs .../xgcc -B.../ conftest.C -c -S.

> How odd.  Why do we do that?

To check the exception model used by default in GCC.

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