[Pkg-varnish-devel] Thanks for packaging varnish!

trentbuck at gmail.com trentbuck at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 23:41:33 UTC 2011


Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
> "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I notice that varnish Depends: gcc. Does it *really* need gcc, or will
> > any cc do? Because on x86/x86-64, there is also tcc in the Debian
> > archive, and it might be nice to use that instead.
> 
> I've not tried using tcc instead of gcc. It might work, it might not. :)

Fair enough.

> You could try making a fake-gcc package using "equivs", to satisfy the
> dependencies of the installed varnish package, and try to use tcc
> instead.

I'm unlikely to bother, because I ended up deploying apache as my
reverse proxy, because I can tell it to handle the SSL and LDAP-backed
HTTP basic auth, and then send talk plain HTTP over the trusted
network to the real web apps, giving them an Authenticated header so
the user doesn't have to log into the app separately.

I did strace varnish, though, and it calls "cc" (not "gcc"), so you
can test on any host that has both gcc and tcc installed, by pointing
cc at tcc (ref. update-alternatives(8)).



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