[distcc] Re: distcc and multiple compilers

[Martin Pool]

On 13 Dec 2002, David Sanderson <dsanderson at panasas.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how we could use distcc for our compilation
> needs, and I've run into a problem.  Our compilation system uses the
> environment (particularly, PATH) to choose between compilers, rather
> than the compiler's name or its command-line switches.  A single build
> might use several compilers selected in this way.
> 
> We already have an infrastructure set up that makes a given compiler
> available under the same directory on all our machines, so if distccd
> could run its command using the environment inherited by the distcc
> command, it could then automatically run the correct compiler on
> distcc's behalf.

I'm not sure it's really necessary to add that to distcc itself.

You can pass a fully-qualified compiler name to distcc, e.g.

 distcc /opt/gcc-2.32939213/bin/gcc -c hello.c

and it will pass that across the network and use it on the server.

-- 
Martin