linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Makefile: Fix distcc compilation with x86 macros

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Date:   Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:19:45 -0700
From:   Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
To:     Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
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.

Thanks,

Logan