[distcc] gcc versioning suggestion

[Martin Pool]

On 12 Dec 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?

Sure.  Is that documented anywhere?

-- 
Martin