[distcc] minimal gcc configuration for distccd

[Martin Pool]

I don't have any details on what gcc does or doesn't need, but it's a nice
project.


On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Steven Honeyman <stevenhoneyman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I've been setting up a build script for a tiny(for modern day
> standards!) initramfs environment so that I can "repurpose" computers
> to use as distccd servers without touching the OS on the hard disk.
>
> This is basically just a trimmed linux kernel, busybox, glibc, gcc,
> and of course distccd (+avahi +dbus, grrr!)
>
> It's working perfectly right now, the size is around 51MB total (using
> latest linux 3.16+gcc4.9.1), but I still want to trim it down further!
> Could someone give me a list of the actual requirements of gcc, for
> distccd to work successfully? I tried randomly plucking files from it
> - not a good idea it seems!
> As I understand it, distccd only should need to be able to compile
> preprocessed files, so should it still work after I remove the linker,
> headers(from libexec), lto-wrapper, etc?
>
> Here's my gcc configure for the current working setup in case there is
> something else I can exclude but haven't found yet:
>
> ../gcc-4.9.1/configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib
> --libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-languages=c,c++
> --disable-nls --disable-multilib --disable-werror --with-system-zlib
> --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-checking=release --enable-threads=posix
> --without-headers --disable-libatomic --disable-libgomp
> --disable-libitm --disable-libquadmath --disable-libsanitizer
> --disable-libssp --disable-libvtv --disable-libcilkrts
> --disable-libstdcxx --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libstdc++-v3
> --disable-libada --disable-libunwind-exceptions --disable-debug
> --disable-bootstrap --disable-plugin --disable-lto --disable-shared
> --enable-static
>
> I expect gmail will make a mess of that - in my script it is nicely
> broken into smaller lines, I promise!
> Also, one final question I'm almost ashamed I need to ask - will
> leaving cloog and isl out of the build have any effect on the code it
> outputs from preprocessed source... or are they just to optimize the
> compiler itself?
>
>
> Any help or feedback would be appreciated,
>
> Steven.
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-- 
Martin
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