[distcc] distcc failed to parse "-x c" and "-x c++" compiler flags and to pass -nostdinc to distcc server

[Fergus Henderson]

2009/10/27 Tihomir Heidelberg - 9a4gl <9a4gl at hamradio.hr>

>  Hi,
>
> having problem with gcce compiler from CSL Arm Toolchain using distcc,
> command arguments parsing problem, description bellow...
>
> According to distcc FAQ:
>
> Compiler command line parsing problems?
>
> distcc parses the compiler command line to work out what operation is being
> invoked, and what are the input and output files. The semantics of gcccommand lines is fairly complex, and has changed slightly over time. There
> may be some valid command lines that distcc understands differently to gcc,
> though none are known at the moment. These ought to cause the command to be
> run locally, but it is possible that it would cause a failure. Either case
> should be reported as a bug.
>
> Using:
> - Cygwin
> - distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-cygwin (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
>   built Apr 25 2005 11:10:45
>   Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004 by Martin Pool.
>   Includes miniLZO (C) 1996-2002 by Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer.
> As I see there is no newer version for cygwin, and on
> http://distcc.samba.org/download.html the same is available as source
>

The distcc site has moved to distcc.org.
The latest version is 3.1 and it should work for Cygwin.  You may need to
build from the source distribution.


>  Using: CSL Arm Toolchain with gcce compiler for ARM, building binaries for
> Symbian OS
> arm-none-symbianelf-g++.exe (GCC) 3.4.3 (release) (CodeSourcery ARM Q1C
> 2005)
> Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> *Problem 1:*
> This compiler has option to tell which compiler to use, c or cpp, option
> is:
>   -x <language>            Specify the language of the following input
> files
>                            Permissible languages include: c c++ assembler
> none
>                            'none' means revert to the default behavior of
>                            guessing the language based on the file's
> extension
> If I pass -x c to
>   distcc.exe arm-none-symbianelf-g++.exe ... *-x c* ...
> I get
> arm-none-symbianelf-g++.exe: warning: `-x c' after last input file has no
> effect
> arm-none-symbianelf-g++.exe: no input files
>
> With *-x c++* there is no warning, but I am not sure if it handle that.
>
> *Problem 2:*
> There is compiler flag *-nostdinc* which does not cause problems to
> distcc.exe calling preprocessor, but this option is not passed to distccd
> server. It seems that distcc.exe does not recognize it, so it ignores this.
>

distcc is open-source... patches welcome!

Cheers,
   Fergus.

-- 
Fergus Henderson <fergus at google.com>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/distcc/attachments/20091201/3a323ea9/attachment.html>