efficient use of auto-builder machines (was Re: Bug#43787: changed title, and remade the proposed change)

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 05:38:03PM +0200, Roman Hodek wrote:
> You forgot the case of recompilations: If default is with -g + strip
> (as policy currently recommends), a lot of time is wasted on the
> auto-builder machines.

I think something like the following would work for auto-builder machines:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# cc cover which removes -g option

for ($i=$j=0; $i<=$#ARGV; $i++, $j++) {
	if ($ARGV[$j] eq '-g') {
		$i--;
	} else {
		$ARGV[$i]= $ARGV[$j];
	}
}
while ($i < $j) {
	pop @ARGV;
	$j--;
}
exec "/usr/bin/gcc", @ARGV;

[I volunteer to rewrite this in C if anyone cares to use it and doesn't
want to deal with the overhead of perl.]

-- 
Raul