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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2020-06-22 12:13:34 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2020-06-22 12:13:34 +0200
commit980a58e34364556f64f9703245b43061748f20ad (patch)
treee6c8b592f40d8b9ac116eea683b642a865ec2e7b /libbuild2
parent442e2a55af0e51b9bf57aae86fc67fa425b75d0b (diff)
Try to detect and warn about the ccache compiler wrapper
Diffstat (limited to 'libbuild2')
-rw-r--r--libbuild2/cc/guess.cxx28
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libbuild2/cc/guess.cxx b/libbuild2/cc/guess.cxx
index 99599f9..8fe4769 100644
--- a/libbuild2/cc/guess.cxx
+++ b/libbuild2/cc/guess.cxx
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
#endif
#include <map>
-#include <cstring> // strlen(), strchr()
+#include <cstring> // strlen(), strchr(), strstr()
#include <libbuild2/diagnostics.hxx>
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ namespace build2
//
static guess_result
guess (const char* xm,
- lang,
+ lang xl,
const path& xc,
const strings& x_mo,
const optional<compiler_id>& xi,
@@ -1206,8 +1206,7 @@ namespace build2
if (!r.empty ())
{
- if (pt != invalid &&
- (pt != r.id.type || (pv && *pv != r.id.variant)))
+ if (pt != invalid && (pt != r.id.type || (pv && *pv != r.id.variant)))
{
l4 ([&]{trace << "compiler type guess mismatch"
<< ", pre-guessed " << pre
@@ -1229,6 +1228,27 @@ namespace build2
else
l4 ([&]{trace << "unable to determine compiler type of " << xc;});
+ // Warn if the absolute compiler path looks like a ccache wrapper.
+ //
+ // The problem with ccache is that it pretends to be real GCC (i.e.,
+ // it's --version output is indistinguishable from real GCC's) but does
+ // not handle all valid GCC modes, in particular -fdirectives-only. As a
+ // poor man's solution we check if the absolute compiler path contains
+ // any mentioning of ccache (for example, /usr/lib64/ccache/g++ on
+ // Fedora).
+ //
+ if (!r.empty ())
+ {
+ if (r.id.type == compiler_type::gcc ||
+ r.id.type == compiler_type::clang)
+ {
+ if (strstr (r.path.effect_string (), "ccache") != nullptr)
+ warn << r.path << " looks like a ccache wrapper" <<
+ info << "ccache cannot be used as a " << xl << " compiler" <<
+ info << "use config." << xm << " to override";
+ }
+ }
+
return r;
}