[Buildroot] [PATCH] infra/ccache: avoid color diagnostics with GCC older than v4.9

[Yann E. MORIN]

Thomas, Carlos, All,

On 2017-02-11 16:38 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> Hello,
> 
> Adding Arnout, Yann and Gustavo in Cc.
> 
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:34:08 -0200, Carlos Santos wrote:
> > When GCC_COLORS is set, ccache passes '-fdiagnostics-color' to GCC but
> > this flag requires GCC v4.9 or later. Older versions fail, complaining
> > about the unrecognized command line option.
> > 
> > The problem is not detectable in the autobuilders because they redirect
> > the output to files/pipes and ccache adds the offending flag only when
> > stderr is a terminal.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Carlos Santos <casantos at datacom.ind.br>
> 
> This looks good to me in principle, so if Arnout, Yann and Gustavo
> don't complain, I'm going to soon apply this to master.
> 
> Another option would be to adjust this in ccache itself at compile time
> (i.e when ccache gets built) rather than having to pass this additional
> GCC_COLORS variable in the environment when building things. This way
> we would be absolutely sure -fdiagnostics-color will never be passed.
> Hence why I'd like the feedback from other developers.

But there is no config option to disable that in ccache. The behaviour
is hard-coded; we would need a patch to disable that.

> A few nits below (but I can fix while applying).
> 
> > +# When GCC_COLORS is set, ccache passes '-fdiagnostics-color' to GCC but
> > +# this flag requires GCC v4.9 or later. Older versions fail, complaining
> > +# about unrecognized command line option.
> > +ifneq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9),y)
> 
> I think we tend to use:
> 
> ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9),)
> 
> instead.
> 
> > +	TARGET_MAKE_ENV += GCC_COLORS=""
> 
> And we don't indent such lines.

And we might need that for the host as well, no?

    ifeq ($(BR2_HOST_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_9),)
    HOST_MAKE_ENV += GCC_COLORS=""
    endif

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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