[distcc] gcc versioning suggestion

[Martin Pool]

On 12 Dec 2002, Alexandre Oliva <oliva at lsd.ic.unicamp.br> wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2002, Martin Pool <mbp at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > I've since been informed that it's better to use a different name for
> > gcc, because -V doesn't work completely reliably.  I'm not sure of the
> > exact reason.
> 
> The reason is that GCC used to use the same compiler driver and specs
> file for multiple versions of gcc, under the assumption that the
> interface of the actual compiler (cc1, cpp, etc) wouldn't change.

Thanks for the explanation.  Does this sound like reasonable advice?

  http://distcc.samba.org/manual/html/distcc-2.html#ss2.10

-- 
Martin