Package: icecc Version: 0.8.0-1 Severity: wishlist If I invoke icecc --version it tells me (very sensibly) the version of icecc I'm using. If I invoke icecc -- --version I get a report of my primary native gcc's version, regardless of the value of ICECC_VERSION, along with an error message about the --
I maintain internal make files, which need to adapt the flags passed down to gcc, depending on gcc's version (e.g. 2.95 doesn't support some of the handier -M variants, gcc 3 but < 3.3 lacks -Wstrict-aliasing, etc.). If a user of the make files has set ICECC_VERSION, presumably to use some version of gcc other than their default installed /usr/bin/gcc, I need the make files to detect which version they're really talking to. When gcc is invoked directly, I can call gcc --version | head -n 1 | sed with suitable parameters and get the version in a make variable to test with pattern-matching; with different sed parameters, I can learn a good deal about cross-compilers, too. However, with icecc, this is not an option; those doing cross-compilation, or test-compilation with an old compiler, can't distribute their compilation with icecc without some extra complications. I've got tar-balls built using the instructions on http://en.opensuse.org/Icecream and have verified that the g++ and gcc they contain are, indeed, from the various versions installed on my lenny machine. None the less, no matter which one I set ICECC_VERSION to, icecc -- --version or icecc -v, e.g. ICECC_VERSION=/usr/opt/icecc/gcc-2.95.4+binutils-2.17.tar.gz icecc -v always get their errors from 4.1.3 (current primary version). This is not the version used when I do real compilation with this environment variable set, so the output is useless. It would be better if icecc failed, reporting that it can't support the operation, rather than "supporting" it by invoking the wrong compiler. My prefered fix would be the addition of a --gcc-version recognised by icecc, resolved by invoking the underlying gcc's --version. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages icecc depends on: ii adduser 3.104 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070712-1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070712-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip icecc recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * icecc/daemon: true * icecc/scheduler: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
