[distcc] Re: libc5 support / gcc names (was Re: distcc 0.9, [patch])
Richard Zidlicky
rz at linux-m68k.org
Sat Sep 14 12:30:00 GMT 2002
On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 06:41:45PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> > Regarding Documentation:
> > The use of 'gcc -V' and similar is nowadays discouraged.
>
> Discouraged by who? Is that the official recommendation of the gcc
> team?
that was my understanding of the manuals last time I read it.
If you need different releases of the compiler coexisting use
the --program-suffix=rel configure option. If you have xcompilers
for various machines use $arch-$os-gcc to cpecify full compiler
name (plus name suffix where appropriate).
> Anyhow, that's fine with me. The next version of distcc will have a
> $DISTCC_CC environment variable so that you can tell it what to use
> for
very good solution, is there a $DISTCC_CXX etc as well?
> > Crosscompiling or compiling in a mixed environment is best done
> > by specifying the full compiler name, eg m68k-linux-gcc. This
> > always works regardless whether it is native or crosscompiler.
>
> The main problem with that approach is that those names are not
> consistently present across machines. For example, the most fully
> specified name available for Debian's gcc 3.1 on my machine is
> "gcc-3.1", not "gcc-3.1-x86". (Perhaps I should file a bug?) Also I
> seem to recall seeing the arch and version values in different orders.
x86 is a difficult case because I never know if I am supposed to use
i386,x86 or whatever :(
Other than that there should be at least one of these *86-linux-gcc,
if not file a bug report to Debian.
> > With gcc-3.2 it is also essential to use same version of binutils
> > on all machines.
>
> Could you elaborate so that I can add an FAQ or manual entry?
gcc-3.2 uses some new features of recent binutils (details are are a bit
beyound me) which don't work well when combined with output from earlier
binutils. Typical symptoms is linker complaining about overlapping sections
which happens most often when compiled with '-g'.
Richard
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