g++ -save-temps mess

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Tue Feb 17 19:48:39 UTC 2009


On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Peter J. Stieber wrote:

> MH = Michael Hennebry
> MH>> I recently went from FC8 to FC9.
> MH>> Since then commands like g++ -save-temps main1.cc
> MH>> give me .s files with names like
> MH>> main1.tmp.localhost.localdomain.2918.s
> MH>> and don't give me any preprocessed source at all.
> MH>> What is going on?
> MH>> How do I fix it?
>
> BW = Bruno Wolff III
> BW> Since I just went through this; make sure you
> BW> aren't using ccache.  I needed to get a .ii
> BW> file for a bug report I filed and just using
> BW> -save-temps only saved the .s files.  Since it
> BW> was easiest, I just removed ccache, but there
> BW> must be a way to turn it off without uninstalling
> BW> it.
>
> export CCACHE_DISABLE=1

Thanks folks.
After some googling, I discovered that not saving .ii
files is a ccache bug that is deemed too hard to fix.
Apparently ccache is the reason for the messy .s file names also.

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