[distcc] Distributing with SPARCworks 4.2 or Forte 6.1 Solaris compiler?

[Martin Pool]

On 18 Oct 2002, "Hien D. Ngo" <hien at moses.xp.com> wrote:
> 
> After getting past the missing 'popt' library, I was able to compile distcc on 
> Solaris.  I'm now trying to distribute compiles using SPARCworks 4.2 and Forte 6.1 
> on Solaris 2.6.  Is anyone using distcc + SW4 or SW6?
> 
> If there's a modular way of implementing support for other compilers outside of gcc, 
> I'd be game to do the work for these (broken) compilers.
> 
> BTW, I get the following error when trying to distribute as-is:
> 
> distcc[26907] ERROR: cpp on solmaster failed with exit code 1
> distcc[26907] Notice: failed to distribute to "solhelper", running locally instead
> cc: illegal suffix of output filename

Does it correctly fall back to local execution?

> If I just run the 'cc' command and use '-o somefile.ext' it complains about the same 
> thing if you don't specify 'somefile.o':
> 
> $  /usr/local/forte-6.1/bin/cc -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.    -E xtail.c -o foo.foo -c
> cc: illegal suffix of output filename
> 
> There is a '-P' option which by default writes to 'filename.i', but you still can't 
> specify '-o' with anything other than 'somefilename.i'

What do -P and -E do?

> So, the compiler really wants objects named '.o', pre-processed
> files '.i', etc.

distcc uses that convention.

-- 
Martin 

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