[distcc] distcc, cross-compilers & packages that ignore CC/CXX... what's the _right_ way?

[Andrew Gaffney]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> On 1/23/06, Stuart Longland <redhatter at gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>>We were just having a discussion (read: heated debate) regarding how to
>>set up distcc to work with cross-compiling toolchains.  The fly in the
>>ointment is dealing with certain packages, which ignore the CC and CXX,
>>and just call `gcc` (or worse, `cc`) instead of the fully qualified
>>compiler name (`mips-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc`...etc).
>>
>>        There are a couple of approaches that we've nutted out:
>>
>>1. Multiple distcc daemons on separate ports: ...
>>2. Single distcc daemon, with client-side wrappers. ...
>>
>>So... I put the question to you, the developers... what's the correct
>>way to handle these "special" cases?  Is there a better way of handling
>>this?
> 
> Yes.  Fix the broken packages and send the fixes upstream.
> That's what I do.

And for dead, slow, incompetent, or otherwise uncooperative upstreams? I don't 
think that's what he had in mind.

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Andrew Gaffney                            http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
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