[distcc] gcc versioning suggestion

Alexandre Oliva oliva at lsd.ic.unicamp.br
Thu Dec 12 18:51:00 GMT 2002


On Dec 12, 2002, Claes Wallin <clawa570 at cyd.liu.se> wrote:

> 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?

I believe so.  GCC 3.3 is going to install itself as
<target>-gcc-<version>, in addition to <target>-gcc and, if it's
native, gcc-<version> and gcc.

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