[distcc] Re: implicit compiler name

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep 15, 2002, Martin Pool <mbp at samba.org> wrote:

>> /me thinks it would be best to install distCC or distcxx in addition
>> to distcc, such that distcxx would run g++ and distcc would run gcc.

> Yes, that would be OK.  Or maybe "distc++"?

Yeah, that looks better.

> It could either use argv[0] tricks, or be the same program just with
> a slightly different main().  It looks from the gcc manual like gcc
> uses the second approach, and I think I prefer it too.

Agreed.

> People might then ask for a --with-default-cc option so that you can,
> if you want, build "m68k-linux-distcc".

Eek :-)

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