Many people, especially around gentoo linux, do think that ccache is a must-have, reducing compile time pretty much. But is that really true? How much does it really help? Let’s nail it down with some facts: ccache parses the compiler call to make sure it’s a single compile as it doesn’t work with linking or multi-source builds (for […]
Tag: gcc
The OQO odyssey – Part 2
This article is part of the OQO odyssey series – You might want to read Part 1 first. As the windows installation was finished, I am adding my default software set containing Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, Antivir and some Sysinternals-Tools. But if you remember the first article about the installation, I have left 15 GB for a Linux installation […]
It’s getting cold…
The weather is getting cold and wet. It is time to get a gcc update that the server produces enough heat for drying clothes and heating the flat…
Which GCC version did I use?
Compiling can be magic somehow. Especially if you try to reconstruct strange behaviour of a special binary. The interesting question in that case is, which gcc version was used for a particiular binary. As GCC writes its version information, we can find it out with a simple command chain: strings -a /path/to/binary-file | grep “GCC:” | sort -u
GCC 4.1.1 im Portage
Nun denn… wieder einmal ein neuer GCC im Portage Tree von Gentoo. Diesmal sogar upgradebar. Also gut, dann wollen wir einmal dieses Meisterwerk im System integrieren… Der neu GCC verwendet die selbe libstdc++.so Version, wie sein Vorgänger. Doch ein einfaches Upgrade reicht in den meisten Fällen nicht aus, da man sich die Binaries ‘bricht’ – Qt ist ein […]