Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] distcc and precompiled headers
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 15:38:52
Message-Id: 20070519173851.7c46348f@c1358217.kevquinn.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] distcc and precompiled headers by Caleb Tennis
1 On Fri, 18 May 2007 08:41:10 -0400 (EDT)
2 "Caleb Tennis" <caleb@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Based on some recent findings, it looks like the two above mentioned
5 > features don't work together. pch don't get distributed to distcc
6 > nodes, so they're basically mutually exclusive. However, distcc is a
7 > FEATURE and pch are a USE flag.
8 >
9 > Should we just put a check in each ebuild that uses the pch use flag,
10 > make an eclass, or build something into the package manager(s) ?
11 > Thoughts?
12
13 I'd go with a 'pch' utility eclass, and have packages that IUSE pch add
14 a call in pkg_setup (which would either die, or disable distcc).
15
16 On a related note, we had a discussion on bug #128810 a while back about
17 whether the package manager should be doing distcc and ccache at all,
18 anyway. Personally I think the package manager shouldn't be involved in
19 that at all.
20
21 --
22 Kevin F. Quinn

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