On 17 Jul 2003, Markus Werle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Pool wrote: > > > I suppose another reason I hesitate to add it is that most of the > > time, users should not have to specify any options. > > OTOH I have to. I have to call make from the same place. > And I still do not know how to elegantly trigger environment > var settings in autotool-generated Makefiles.
You can do this just by putting an assignment to the variable into the Makefile.am or Makefile.in with an export statement DISTCC_EXTRA_CC_FLAGS=-xc++ export DISTCC_EXTRA_CC_FLAGS > For me the best thing you can do is provide complete control via > command-line, so I can run my > configure CXX=... CXXFLAGS=... > > But to obtain some convergence in this discussion: > I propose the following, if you like: > > You leave distcc as it is, but exhibit every little aspect of distcc > behaviour to control via environment vars (especially the > DISTCC_EXTRA_REMOTE_FLAGS, please). > > I myself write a little C++ tool that can only be controlled > via command-line options. This tool sets all environment vars > according to the command-line and finally syscalls distcc. > > You put that stuff into the contrib part of Your distribution, > such that every C++-user can build it whenever she wants. > > I just saw that most of my work has been redone within the > boost library, the next releasse contains a command-line parser > tool. Probably I should build my tool upon that lib instead > of mine, we'll see. OK. > > Hosts are > > probably better stored in a file for most cases, and most of the other > > options should not need to be set except for debugging. Is that true? > > Do you find yourself using options often? > I find command-line options rather useful (as you know by now) > If I start my finite element solver, the call looks like this: > > ./isothermal_solid -x 31 -y 31 --grid-extension-in-x=1.0 \ > --grid-extension-in-y=1.0 -t 1e-4 -n 100000000 \ > --newton-convergence-criterion=1e-10 \ > --load=1E-2 --load-time=10E-4 Yes, I know this is good for general programs. This is how exactly distccd works. Regards, -- Martin __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/distcc
