Re: [jamboost] Finding out where output files are and changing it + precompiled headers

From: Jürgen Hunold (hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-07 01:29:03

Hi Volodya !

On Wednesday, 6. July 2005 17:04, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> This PCH thing becomes a common request. Recall that msvc has both
> "automatic" pch mode, that requires, IIRC, a single switch, and
> "manual" mode, that requires creating PCH once, and then using it
> from other targets. I recall I've suggested the following syntax for
> the manual mode:
>
> pch stl : stl.h :
> exe my : my.cpp : <pch>stl ;
>
> I think this should not be too hard to add.

That would be great. I've experimented with qmake's pch support and got 
a speed improment of 30 to 60 % on msvc and gcc.

> > Also I wonder how other compilers besides msvc implement
> > precompiler headers?
>
> borland, como, gcc

When implementing pch support, please add a mechanism which allows 
disabling pch support from the command line or toolset configuration.
Something like "<use-pch>no" feature.

Rationale:
pch are great when compiling on a single machine. But the go havoc when 
using distrubuted compile system like distcc and icecc. Those tools 
usually run the preprocessor on the local machine and transmit the 
preprocessed output to a slave to do the "hard work" ;-)
None of those tools transmit the precompiled header and it is not 
guaranteed that it will be available over the network (not sure if this 
is a such a great idea anyway, due to the size of the pch output ;-))

So I like to configure my pch the way you proposed but be able to 
disabled it quick.

I don't want do have to write

pch stl : stl.h :
exe my : my.cpp : <pch>stl ;
exe my : my.cpp : <use-pch>no ;

in all of my 100+ Jamfiles because this adds quite an overhead to 
them ;-)

Yours,

Jürgen

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