On Wednesday 12 of February 2014, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:39:25 +0100 > > Lubos Lunak <l.lu...@centrum.cz> wrote: > > Clang automatically uses colors for output automatically if used in > > terminal. Ccache's redirecting to a file disables this. GCC 4.8 has got a > > similar support, except that it apparently requires also $GCC_COLORS or > > an explicit option. > > > > The patch detects if the compiler would use colors if used without > > ccache and explicitly forces an option to achieve this. Note that I do > > not have GCC 4.8 here, so I tested with Clang's alias and the GCC_COLORS > > support is done based on documentation. > > -fdiagnostics-color and GCC_COLORS were added in 4.9. Maybe some distros > have backported it?
You're right, it's new in 4.9 . But it doesn't actually matter for the patch, as it is referenced only in a comment and the commit message. -- Lubos Lunak _______________________________________________ ccache mailing list ccache@lists.samba.org https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/ccache