From: Logan Gunthorpe Sent: November 15, 2018 at 1:19:45 AM GMT > To: Nadav Amit <[email protected]>, Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>, Masahiro Yamada > <[email protected]>, Michal Marek <[email protected]>, > Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>, Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>, H. > Peter Anvin <[email protected]>, X86 ML <[email protected]>, Linux Kbuild mailing > list <[email protected]>, LKML <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Fix distcc compilation with x86 macros > > > > > On 14/11/18 10:46 AM, Nadav Amit wrote: >> Actually, we can just figure out whether distcc or icecc are used in the >> Makefile according to the “version”, similarly to the way clang is detected. >> This would neither require new Makefile arguments or Kconfig options. >> >> What do you say about the following? > > That may be a good idea, but I was kind of hoping to be able to add > support for this to at least a future version of icecc (though I'm not > committing to that...). So it would be nice to have a way to force it > one way or the other with an environment variable.
As long as the argument was *required* to get distcc to work at all, you could expect people would figure out an argument is needed. In this case, I suspect nobody will ever know about this argument (except you). Eventually, if you get a fix into icecc, we will need to change the Makefile, consider the version number and act accordingly. Anyhow, I’ll add an argument as you asked, and let Ingo (& others) be the judge(s).
