For the records, I'm using the following script. It results in a
correct compilation with Automake, Icc, and Distcc.
#! /bin/sh
icc=/home/lrde/lrde/usr/bin/icc
# ICC needs to be taught that *.ii is C++.
# The wonderful news is that:
#
# % /home/lrde/lrde/usr/bin/icc I-dont-exist
# ld: cannot open I-dont-exist: No such file or directory
# % /home/lrde/lrde/usr/bin/icc -c I-dont-exist
#
# icc per se does not complain about missing files... That's
# why understanding the problems takes so long....
case "$@" in
*.cc*|*.cpp*) set -- -Kc++ "$@" ;;
esac
# ICC is not able to honor both -E and -M, but Automake wants -M,
# and -E will be added by distcc.
case "$@" in
*-M*)
# Push a token among the arguments that will be used to notice when we
# ended options/arguments parsing.
arg_sep="$$--$$"
set -- "$@" "$arg_sep"
#
# Parse command line arguments.
while test x"$1" != x"$arg_sep"; do
case "$1" in
-MF) shift
minus_M_args="$minus_M_args -MF$1" ;;
-M*) minus_M_args="$minus_M_args $1" ;;
-E) minus_E=-E;;
*) set -- "$@" "$1";;
esac
shift
done
# Pop the token
shift
;;
esac
if test "x$minus_E" != x; then
echo "$0: don't know what to do with -E" >&2
fi
if test "x$minus_M_args" != x; then
$icc $minus_M_args "$@"
fi
exec /usr/bin/distcc $icc "$@"
But the speedup is really miserable: none AFAICS (on several runs). I
must say that my src hierarchy is poor for -j, as it heavily uses
Automake and many small modules compiled sequentially. Here are the
figure I get:
make -j4 CC=icc CXX=icc 250,09s user 17,22s system 46% cpu 9:38,68 total
make -j4 CC=dicc CXX=dicc 257,89s user 22,69s system 55% cpu 8:22,51 total
