[distcc] Re: implicit compiler name

Alexandre Oliva oliva at lsd.ic.unicamp.br
Mon Sep 16 14:11:01 GMT 2002


On Sep 16, 2002, Dimitri PAPADOPOULOS-ORFANOS <papadopo at shfj.cea.fr> wrote:

> Then there would still be the option of letting distcc run the
> compiler the name of which is given by the symlink. This way
> you don't have to modify Makefiles and you can easily switch
> between a GNU compiler and a native compiler:
> 	CC  -> distcc CC
> 	g++ -> distcc g++

But then, again, it's not that simple.

Consider PATH=/usr/local/ccache/bin:/usr/local/distcc/bin:/usr/bin:...
such that:

/usr/local/ccache/bin/gcc -> ccache
/usr/local/distcc/bin/gcc -> distcc
/usr/local/bin/gcc is the real thing

distcc has to be smart enough not only to know that the real gcc is
looking for has to be different from a link to itself, but also that
it must be *after* itself in the PATH, otherwise running gcc will
enter infinite recursion between ccache and distcc.

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