g++, colorgcc and ccache

Question

Trying to combine ccache and colorgcc. Following link text:

• my g++ is soft link to colorgcc
• ~/.colorgccrc contains line: \"g++: ccache /usr/bin/g++\"

Answer 1

The Quick Answer

Better not to modify any system files. here is some variables & a simple colorgcc shell function to pipe the output of your compilation. You loose the return code but you can handle that differently if you really need it.

n=$(tput setaf 0)
r=$(tput setaf 1)
g=$(tput setaf 2)
y=$(tput setaf 3)
b=$(tput setaf 4)
m=$(tput setaf 5)
c=$(tput setaf 6)
w=$(tput setaf 7)
N=$(tput setaf 8)
R=$(tput setaf 9)
G=$(tput setaf 10)
Y=$(tput setaf 11)
B=$(tput setaf 12)
M=$(tput setaf 13)
C=$(tput setaf 14)
W=$(tput setaf 15)
END=$(tput sgr0)

colorgcc()
    {
    perl -wln -M'Term::ANSIColor' -e '
    m/not found$/ and print "$ENV{N}$`$ENV{END}", "$&", "$ENV{END}"
    or
    m/found$/ and print "$ENV{N}$`${g}", "$&", "$ENV{END}"
    or
    m/yes$/ and print "$ENV{N}$`${g}", "$&", "$ENV{END}"
    or
    m/no$/ and print "$ENV{N}$`$ENV{END}", "$&", "$ENV{END}"
    or
    m/undefined reference to/i and print "$ENV{r}", "$_", "$ENV{END}"
    or
    m/ Error |error:/i and print "$ENV{r}", "$_", "$ENV{END}"
    or
    m/ Warning |warning:/i and print "$ENV{y}", "$_", "$ENV{END}"
    or
    m/nsinstall / and print "$ENV{c}", "$_", "$ENV{END}"
    or
    m/Linking |\.a\b/ and print "$ENV{C}", "$_", "$ENV{END}"
    or
    m/Building|gcc|g\+\+|\bCC\b|\bcc\b/ and print "$ENV{N}", "$_", "$ENV{END}"
    or
    print; '
    }

use it like that :

./configure | tee -a yourlog.configure.log | colorgcc
make | tee -a yourlog.make.log | colorgcc
make install | tee -a yourlog.install.log | colorgcc