g++ -save-temps mess

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>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.
>
Humm, thread hijacking here.  I had an amanda build/install fail on me 2 days 
ago, error was a stray ` character in a .c file.  It didn't repeat when I 
reran the build script.  And I use ccache.  Just a random data point?

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