[distcc] Re: Re: Finding peers: zeroconf/rendezvous?

Bret Mogilefsky mogul at gelatinous.com
Wed Feb 26 03:38:49 GMT 2003


On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:00:21 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> T-shirts from happy users are always welcome, you know. ;-)

It hasn't solved my problem yet, but if it does I'll bury you in them. =)
 
> Unfortunately there is a dilemma here: pick one:
[...]
>  B - people have two very slightly different gcc binaries in
>      circulation, and so their builds fail in confusing and subtle ways.
> 
> It is very unfortunate that B can occur, but because of e.g. vendors
> patching gcc without updating the version number, it has happened.
> (Perhaps Sony would never be so naughty :-)

I'd be inclined to take the advice of the FAQ under "Different gcc
versions?"...  Make the default configuration in our distribution
correctly use a version-qualified compiler name.


Bret



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