[distcc] gcc versioning suggestion

[Claes Wallin]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:19:12PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation.  Does this sound like reasonable advice?
> 
>   http://distcc.samba.org/manual/html/distcc-2.html#ss2.10

Excerpt from link:
> If you build gcc from source, you should use the --program-suffix
> configuration options to cause it to be installed with a name that
> encodes the gcc version and the target platform, such as gcc-3.2 or
> gcc-3.2-arm.

Wouldn't it be better to use the standard naming for cross-compilers,
i.e along the lines of "i686-linux-gcc-3.2", instead of introducing an
arbitrary naming scheme?


   /Clacke