[distcc] Link-based masquerading and dist-cross-compiling

[Martin Pool]

On 15 Oct 2004, ncrfgs <ncrfgs at tin.it> wrote:
> > It's slightly better to say 
> > 
> >   CCACHE_PREFIX=distcc exec ccache ia64-linux-gcc "$@"
> 
> What is the difference?

exec is marginally more efficient.  CCACHE_PREFIX lets ccache know
that ia64-linux-gcc is the real compiler.

> > >   :~$ ls -la /usr/bin/ia64-linux-gcc
> > > 
> > >   [...] /usr/bin/ia64-linux-gcc -> /usr/i64-linux/bin/ia64-linux/gcc*
> > 
> > You can use this for packages that do allow you to override $CC.
> 
> What about the packages that doesn't allow me to?

Then you should put /usr/lib/ia64-linux at the front of your path, so
they see the wrapper script.

-- 
Martin 
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