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

For me the best solution is this one. After installing ccache on Fedora I have following in my PATH:

PATH=/usr/lib64/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

and gcc command will call ccache binary:

which gcc

/usr/lib64/ccache/gcc

To create a call chain gcc -> color-gcc -> ccache -> gcc

I need just to create following aliases:

alias gcc="color-gcc"
alias g++="color-gcc"

Put these two lines at the end of ~/.bashrc and you are done! No need to create the symlinks or fix the color-gcc source.

(In case you are using other shell than BASH you will need to put the aliases into the appropriate shell settings file)

Jirka